Which Service Anthem is Your Favorite?

"Jcarr" (jcarr)
07/21/2016 at 15:16 • Filed to: None

Because the question just popped into my head. Who ya got?

If you choose “Other”, provide an example.

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U.S. Air Force - “The U.S. Air Force (Into the Wild Blue Yonder)”

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U.S. Army - “The Army Goes Rolling Along”

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U.S. Coast Guard - “Semper Paratus”

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U.S. Navy - “Anchors Aweigh”

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U.S. Marine Corps - “Marines’ Hymn (Halls of Montezuma)”

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DISCUSSION (17)

Leon711 > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:22

Sussex by the Sea

/British

ScoobsMcGee > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:25

Sums it up pretty well.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:26

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:30

The Navy and USMC are neck and neck. Leathernecks are best though.

Ash78, voting early and often > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:30

I gotta go with Navy. It's just the most memorable and recognizable, as well as the easiest to sing/whistle. Nobody hears it as says "WTF?" and then has to get their ass kicked because they didn't respect you as a Marine :D

InFierority Complex > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:43

They all kind of suck as music really

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:46

I like “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

lone_liberal > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:54

Navy. It has the words “drink to the foam” in it. It’s a drinking song.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 15:55

Coast Guard, hands down. I’ve played them all hundreds of times, and the USCG song is the most tuneful and the least appreciated.

Jcarr > ttyymmnn
07/21/2016 at 15:58

I have a special appreciation for the Coasties. My neighbor is a former one and is super proud of it. Wears his full dress in all of the local parades.

ttyymmnn > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 16:11

If I were to pick a branch, that would be it. I think it still has a very noble mission. And those rescue swimmers are some of the most amazing people on the planet. Problem is, I’m a terrible swimmer.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
07/21/2016 at 16:39

If I were to pick a branch again, I would pick the coast guard. The Marine Corps was an experience, but not one I would want to do a second a time.

Sweet Trav > ttyymmnn
07/21/2016 at 16:54

My favorite to play was Anchors Away, but that was simply due to the arrangement that we had with a bitchin trombone line.

ttyymmnn > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
07/21/2016 at 17:04

I’m not sure I could do it the first time. I’ve wondered if I could make it through boot camp. It always seemed to me that it would be more of a mental challenge than a physical one.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
07/21/2016 at 18:15

It is indeed more of mental experience. Learning how much stress and how much pain you can actually still function under was the hardest part. Providing that you avoid getting significantly injured (and it does happen to a not insignificant number of recruits), you get there on the physical part as a byproduct of surviving the mental part of it. It really is all in your head, expect for muscle exhaustion. When you can no longer lift, or otherwise move, your arms from you side, that isn’t in your head anymore (at least not for a few minutes until you recover, then it just hurts).

The biggest mind-fuck of them all there was getting hurt. If something happened that was going to requires you to be unable to train for more than say a couple of days, recruits get dropped from their training company and sent to the medical rehabilitation platoon (which is still a basic training environment and lifestyle, but they are not actually training or making progress towards leaving the recruit depot). Once healed, they pickup with a new training company at the same point in which they were dropped. I narrowly avoided this extended basic training experience myself (and I learned a new definition of pain in the process). One very quickly figured out that the fastest way out of boot camp was to graduate. The folks the got hurt spent more time there. They folks that got hurt bad enough to be discharged and the folks that refused to train (or who otherwise get kicked out) end up spending far more time on MCRD, also.

X37.9XXS > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 18:25

The baddest guys extant

An ode to a blood sausage

R Saldana [|Oo|======|oO|] - BTC/ETH/LTC Prophet > Jcarr
07/21/2016 at 20:56

If I don’t vote for my own Chesty Pullers ghost will make me up at zero dark thirty and quarter deck me in my alphas.