Battleland

Listen to the Band!

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Tracy A. Woodward / The Washington Post

The U.S. Army marching band.

Battleland, a one-time trumpeter and tuba-er, likes nothing more than the smart sounds of a squared-away military band.

Sure, there are critics, forever complaining that the U.S. military has more musicians than the State Department has foreign-service officers.

But amid the crunch of sequestration, is this really the right time for Pershing’s Own to be buying what it calls “Distinctive Band Uniforms”?