U.S. Army Field Band

Musical ambassadors

by James Leonard

posted 7/1/2004

China has more than 2 million soldiers in its army. North Korea has more than 1 million. Both Russia and the United States have fewer than half a million each. But no other army in the world — not the Chinese, the North Koreans, or the Russians; not the British, the French, or even the Germans — has an ensemble like the United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus. All of those countries have army bands and choruses to march and parade and give concerts for their troops, but none of them has a band and chorus that bill themselves as

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