I was a professional soldier for 32 years, both Regular Army and Army National Guard, serving as an enlisted man, NCO, and officer. I was an Infantryman, Quartermaster Corps, and finally a Field Artillery Officer.
I detest the Army Song with the white hot hatred usually saved for the murderer of a close family member. Headquarters, Department of the Army, made one of their more mindbogglingly stupid decisions (of which it made many in the 1950s, see the Army Green Service Uniform and the Pentomic Division concept). The bureaucrats decided that they were getting an inferiority complex because the Army cannot find a song to compete with the songs of the other services. So they stole the tune of a beloved historic song, and added on idiotic lyrics that scream written by bureaucratic committee.
Never mind that the Army has managed to fight and win the nations wars (aside from the Seminole War) without a song. The bureaucratic beast must have their showpiece.
I wish they would choke on it.
Rant off.
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