Thanks for the welcome!
I can appreciate folks who want nothing to do with DU or Twitter... but as you said; their stupidity mesmerizes me. LOL
And Yeah, I noticed shortly after I registered, that there is another KC... KC25 is just an old game tag from WWIIOL (Which is just my initials and 25 for VFA-25--Im not very creative, lol)
So, were you like "Big Army Band" or a division band, or... how does bands work in the Army, lol, I don't know.
I was (and still am) a knuckle-dragging low brass player ostracized to the division and separate bands of the U.S. Army. I never had the ambition to do what it takes to meet the requirements of scoring a 3.0 (on the Navy's 4.0 GPA system) to qualify as a "special" bandsman, with the corresponding MOS identifier. I was too busy chasing skirts and doing the ancillary jobs that needed to be done.
Besides, who the hell wants to be able to play harmonic minor scales in B (2 sharps) in sixteenth notes at 120 beats per minute? (I didn't get to that level of skill until I retired from the Army.) LOL
Started playing bass trombone 10 years after I retired, and tuba 4 years after that. Since I didn't have to worry about Operations orders, supply requisitions, Letters of Authorization, and general shit like that, hey, I had all the time in the world to practice (and did) AFTER I was done with my civilian job.