One of the things I truly liked about my military service. It gathers you together with the spirit of every soldier, and reminds you why you serve. Standing at attention, in the long shadows of the late afternoon, facing the flag, I always felt part of a greater tradition, and I felt pride.

@danieljustdaniel9550

2 жыл бұрын

Also enjoyed the post theather .

@mmoradiointeractive

2 жыл бұрын

You don't realize just how much you miss it until you are no longer around it. C Co 1-12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division.

@mjusa4279

Жыл бұрын

absolutely. gives me chills even today hearing them.

Hearing this when I was at Navy OCS was the greatest thing in the world - it meant that our Drill Instructor had left for the day!

really miss hearing the bugle calls through out the day.

@mmoradioonline4526

4 жыл бұрын

You and me both

@richarddupont9632

3 ай бұрын

Same here brother.

Miss it every day. Being back in "civvy" life is nothing short of a nightmare among others.

@andrewa626

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for serving sir. God bless

@chaplainwade

2 жыл бұрын

I fully agree with you about that. I retired in 2008 and I miss it tremendously. Thank you for your service.

Brings back memories of Ft. Riley and Vicenza,Italy

When the music FIRST begins military personnel turn to the direction of the music, even if you can't see the flag, and go to parade rest (or just rest). After the canon shot, and the music begins again, military personnel snap to a position of attention and render a salute. Once the music ends, military personnel drop salute and carry on w/business. Regarding civilians, hand over heart. If you're military in uniform you can still salute, and if you're retired military you can salute as well.

@deltasquad8817

2 жыл бұрын

Is this osan?

I had never heard retreat sounded until last summer (2007) when I went to visit my sister and her husband who was stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. Now it's one of my favorite bugle calls.

Thanks for the video. When I was on active duty at Fort Bliss back in the 60's this daily ceremony, at least for me, brought it all home as to why I was serving.

Brings back memories. Ft. Benning.

just coming back from Fort Jackson, i miss the sounding of the bugle calls.

thank you soldiers brother was army even he shes a tear at the playing of the natinal anthem

THANK YOU for posting. Semper fi.

Don't think I ever got to Red Cloud. We were all at Camp Humphrey during much of TS 83, but I drove what seemed like all over Korea.

Good video.. Stay alert for America.

i miss this

I can remember watching members of my unit about break their necks running to get inside when retreat sounded, then again, they were not very motivated.

Second to none love you 2ID

befor i moved to canada i used to hear this every night at 1700 on the cape vincent airforce base in jefferson county new york state if the wind is the right way you can hear it from wolf island ontario canada accris the st lawrance river from cape vincent new york but its moastly the boom of cérémonial cannon that can be heard

With respect, every day for a year (2007), starting at 0600, at Camp Red Cloud, Korea, headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Division, REVEILLE was played immediately after the firing of a canon. The entire division staff was assembled prior. When the canon was fired & reveille started playing, the entire formation was brought to a position of attention and present arms. When reveille stopped, we dropped our salute. When the canon sounded and reveille played, the colors were raised simultaneously.

FYI "Retreat" is the first part- after the cannon fire is called "To the Color."

@loveGG yeah.. Colors go up to Reveille at 06 on Army posts.. and then they play retrat before to the colors and the flag is lowered on to the colors

73rd armor/ 7inf Camp Beavers, Korea. Korean, UN and American Flag on post. Great memories. THE BEST

Its an Army post on Korean soil. Its customary to have the host nation flag flying beside our's.

@krabbykenny7933

3 жыл бұрын

and the center pole is where the UN flag used fly

retired AF but my Army brothers always did it right at 1700.......respect.....Ft Dix and all over the world......

@bluemagic181

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Casciano jbmdl 👍

@thekidhartford5266

5 жыл бұрын

@@bluemagic181 and you know that......🙏

Ah, CRC. I'm really missing that place.

Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu.

Along with the sound of fighter jets putting me to sleep, this is what I miss most about living on base...RAF Mildenhall, England

@loveGG Only at U.S. Army posts are the colors raised at Reveille. Navy, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard Posts Raise it at 8 AM.

We're here, of course, (with the Brits and other allies) at the behest of the Republic of Korea, which could at a moments notice insist upon the departure of the American military presence - which I can report to you with confidence that those Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines from all countries would only be too happy to oblige.

Things that make you go hmmm "On navy posts the colors go up at 0800 hours and go down at 1800 hours" Bases - Ajaruldoss js

@JoshProws2

10 жыл бұрын

it seems different for many of the army posts as well. in Ft Jackson and in Ft Lee, the colors go up at 0600 but at Ft. Knox the flag goes up at 0630. However, Every post I've been to so far lowers it at 1700.

@jiwdan416

9 жыл бұрын

Claire Durkee Worthington Cuz the Navy is Lazy, Lol. Juuuuuuuuuust Kidding. Source:SGT, U.S. Army

When I heard this in Germany it usually meant - "No more than an hour 'till a beer/pretzel in one hand and my little blond girl in the other."

army and navy do flag ceremony slightly differently. Army raises the flag with reveille.

On navy posts the colors go up at 0800 hours and go down at 1800 hours

@jackgrimaldi8685

5 жыл бұрын

Wow 0800? So navy sleeps in every day?

Been there two tours ..... Second To None !

Memories.....

hear the military retreat never get old to me

I remember that cars would stop when this would happen for sure around the parade field, but now a days not as before.

when retreat is sounded all unifomed members go to attention when the firing is sounded it is a warning to units to present arms when to the colors is played that is when all personell in uniform salute and drop the salute after to the colorsa is over

2nd Infantry Division Head Quarters Camp Red Cloud, South Korea

@loveGG You may have been in the Navy or Marines. They play To the Colors in the morning. Army and AF play it while lowering the colors [Preceded by Retreat]

@robertfisher835

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the Army raises the flag to Reveille in the morning The Air Force raises it to to the colors. The Army lowers the flag to to the colors and the the Air Force lowers it to the national Anthem

@martialmusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertfisher835 thank you for the AF correction

@robertfisher835

3 жыл бұрын

@@martialmusic your welcome

Is that army or marines? By the way, I used to be stationed at USNFA Yokosuka, Japan and I took part in colors all the time, except without the cannon fire.

Meanwhile there is a few hundred troops trying to get indoors off camera

@ronaldbrown9638

5 жыл бұрын

Eager Aurora and I will find them 🤨

@1971002jmac

11 ай бұрын

Lol. You are correct!

It must be quite convenient for you, 60 years and thousands of miles removed from the situation, to conclude that General MacArthur's "subsequent invasion was rash." I would find it difficult for any American commander to accept a situation in which he'a prevented from decisively engaging and eliminating a legally recognized threat.

I miss hearing the bugle calls, even revelie.

@benjaminsnyder4183

7 жыл бұрын

I go on base and sometimes hear retreat.

yes it is. Camp Red Cloud 2nd I.D.

@1LTPETE Roger that! Kids and wives and everyone stops at the first note of Retreat, hand over heart for To the Colors [or position of attention]. MP's stop kids who goof off during the ceremony. No one wants his dad to get a phone call about a mis behaved kid then.

Did they stop playing the Warrior March after?

Ahh the fond memories of BCT at Ft. Jackson and the scramble of some "priv-it" yelling "FLAG!" F Co 3/60th Hoo-ah.

Nice.

Comrade... okay... I don't see which of your words I've twisted. No straw men here, but sorry, I'm not letting Svenson, or anyone else like him, escape without a riposte from me.

Your forgetting the best part... when you get called into your CO's office because your wife/husband can't seem to learn to pull over, and just keeps on driving during colors. =/

Army.

Svenson1981's comment was neither intelligent nor articulate. He chose not to engage me in the sort of discussion we're currently having. I don't even think what he wrote qualifies as "disagreement" since he decided not to articulate his opinion further. I simply wrote him off and expended about as much energy in my reply as his initial comment. He, of course, can expound on his viewpoint at any time and I'd love to meet him on that field of discussion.

Regarding fascism, I hope thats an area of discussion no one will soon get over. My intent w/respect to the brownshirt reference was to point out the knee-jerk, fashionable "America bashing," if you will, of Svenson. I've heard it time and again without any articulation, just as he demonstrated - merely parroting some regimented diatribe that he heard from whatever authority. If they're his own thoughts, I think he's obliged to explain them. I don't take too kindly to hit-and-run ad hominem.

Secondly, I disagree with the paradigm you might be putting forth. I'm not so sure that I see things in such zero-sum terms, where the ascent of other international influences necessarily requires the descent of American influence or "dominance." I don't know what you mean by "get over," again, what are we getting over? Yes, I know what you said, but I suppose you're going to have to clarify your terms a little more.

Thats a negative. Retreat has always been played first followed by to the colors in the army. Cannon is always fired at the beginning of to the colors. It has never changed. You may be referring to the marine corps. Marines corps play retreat folowed by the star spangled banner

To merely halt at a politically convenient latitude, devoid of any tactical or operational advantage, and simply attempt to hold that militarily disastrous position while echelon after echelon of Chinese and Soviet armed and supported North Koreans pummel and infiltrate that line? I think not.

I saw this scene play out daily at Camp Casey Korea 1967/68. The only difference was the UN flag flying there on the third staff is missing in this (what appears to be) a stateside setting.

First, the use of the word "invasion" to describe the advance north of the 38th parallel strikes me as inaccurate, to say the least. It initially appeared to me as though you were supporting Svenson1981's "you are some Korea invaders," insult. My subsequent litany was merely intended to demonstrate otherwise.

Why is retreat (first call) played before morning colors (after the cannon fire) and the flag lowered on morning colors?

@stephenlarson737

8 жыл бұрын

+TWBiker According to service-specific general orders, sequences may vary in regards to time and order. Reveille is always concurrent with morning colors, as Retreat plays for the evening colors. In the USAF, Reveille precedes To The Colors, which is played at the same time as the Flag is raised briskly. In the afternoon, Retreat is sounded before the National Anthem, when the Flag is lowered ceremoniously. Again, this may differ by service.

Well, to the extent that I find myself personally, egotistically, connected to the prowess of my country, of course I prefer that we remain military unmatched with enormous political influence - does this not go without saying? I should hope, however, that simply because this is the case, you haven't concluded that I'm incapable of critique, be it of myself or my country. I don't believe this could be borne out of my position on the Korean War.

Truman obviously would not have allowed such an action - since he removed General MacArthur well in advance, so I don't think your notional nuclear attack against China assists your argument; which is what? Had the Chinese not intervened, and since Truman was not interested in a wider war to the greatest possible extent, I find it difficult to believe that tanks would have soon thereafter advanced north of the Yalu.

Koreans respect to USFK. thanks!

Question: Why is the Korean flag lowered along with the american flag?

@Anthony-zs7ky

9 жыл бұрын

GalaxyMagician I believe it's because the flag code says that the American flag can't be lower than a flag of another nation that's on a flagpole next to it. So, to ensure proper respect is paid to both flags, they are both lowered at the same time? Then again, it may be something specific to the situation in South Korea. South Korea adopting American procedures on shared bases, perhaps?

@Fearlessmullet

8 жыл бұрын

+GalaxyMagician in south korea the korean flag is flown next to our flag due to us being on their teritory.. it is respect... also we have KATUSA soldiers... (south korean soldiers) serving along side us here in korea.. we give them the same customs and curtousies that we give others of our armed froces.. they are our brothers in arms... our motto is "katchi kapshida" (we go together.. we fight together) hope that helps

Your point is mute, for there's nothing to "get over." And check your open sources, the American military footprint has been, and is being, enormously reduced. Perhaps you should also investigate the positions of the recently elected Lee Myung-bak.

It's really not that bad.

Korea?

@deltasquad8817

5 жыл бұрын

South Korea

Why is there a South Korean flag next to the American flag?

@Hunter Whitefied, Army Brat here, how about running laps around the baseball field because you decided it was playtime instead of standing at attention. Didn't happen to me but some other kids on the team. My pops would have had a field day on my ass if it was one of his kids.

@Awesomenesspossumness

7 жыл бұрын

pureair23 I wasn't paying attention the other day about what time it was and me and my dad were at the shoppette getting gas and they were retreating the colors. I was in the car and I looked at him as he moved to the front and he pointed at me like basically to "get the fuck out" and I got outside and heard the reveille. I was like oh shit and stood at attention, kind of a long story but basically any time he sees or knew people didn't respect the retreat he was pissed. I always found it awesome to put some effort into respecting generations of Americans all under one flag at 1700.

I bet Osan AFB

@deltasquad8817

5 жыл бұрын

Camp red cloud

Fantastic....Ft Indiantown Gap has now fallen into compliance. Use bigger GUNS. PLEASE.

i realize something i see south korea

The U.S. Flag hit the bottom first. Big no no.

@ShastaPacificRoad

9 жыл бұрын

Not in the RoK. The host nation flag has precedence there. Been there, done that. B Co, 728th MP Bn. "Of the Troops, For the Troops"

Ah, you are a contemporary brownshirt, spewing your blindly accepted anti-American dogma; with a bruised European ego.