Semper fi! He is indeed a USMC drum major.
tom wrote:
You can also see the guy following him is wearing a Marine hat.
tv
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From: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:27 AM
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Excellent call, Ryan!
Now William can sleep more soundly...and Chris has a proper
answer to his question. <g>
keith
Ryan Lee wrote:
Hi Chris,
Your post piqued my curiosity, and being obsessive, I embarked on a
bit of a tedious quest to match tv's photo:
http://www.bigdayphoto.com/reagan/040609-173122-6008.htm
with some regiment somewhere. I narrowed it down to the Grenadier,
Welsh, Irish, Scots and Coldstream Guards. Interestingly, they're
differentiated by button spacings on the tunics:
http://www.irishguards.net/IG2.htm
However, that was a bit of a dead end, then I found out Canadian
Grenadiers wear it too (after all, the hats come from their
bears..).
But alas, the uniform did not match.
Then I chanced upon an Encarta definition which mentioned
drum majors too.
Kept checking and definitive success:
http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/abt_band_uni_drum.html
Cheers,
Ryan
