[TPIN] Military Bands - a new thread?

[Achias1 at mchsi.com]

We had the same regulation in the army, but we got around it by using aliases
while playing in town.

The three horns were Sam Spoozich, Filburt Desinex and Melvin Frump.

Dave



> I know what you mean Jon. The military has some strange ways of operating.
> While I can't quote the regulation chapter and verse, my Navy MOS as a rated
> Navy musician barred me from working downtown and competing with civilian
> musicians. Being that military musicians are often left with a lot of idle
> time on our hands, I ended up working for an undertaker doing 'removals'. By
> the same token, there was a Navy hospital corpsman on the same base whose
> duties included being an embalmer which is a category within his rating
> since he was licensed as one in civilian life. Because of the regulation, he
> couldn't work downtown as such, and because he was a good sax player, he
> could work downtown as a musician. Go figure!
> BOB