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Bugle calls

Adjutant's Call: indicates that the adjutant is about to form the guard, battalion, or regiment.

Alarm (as played by Sam Jaffe near the end of Gunga Din)

Assembly: Signals troops to assemble at a designated place.

Attention: Sound as a warning that troops are about to be called to attention.

Boots and Saddles

Call to Quarters: Signals all personnel not authorized to be absent to their quarters for the night.)

Charge: Signal to execute a charge: gallop forward into harm's way with deadly intent.

Church Call: Signals religious services are about to begin.

The call may also be used to announce the formation of a funeral escort.)

Drill Call: Sounds as a warning to turn out for drill.

Fatigue Call: Signals all designated personnel to report for fatigue duty.

Fire Call: Signals that there is a fire on the post or in the vicinity.

The call is also used for fire drill.

First Call: Sounds as a warning that personnel will prepare to assemble for a formation.

First Sergeant's Call: Signals that the First Sergeant is about to form the company.

Guard Mount: Sounds as a warning that the guard is about to be assembled for guard mount.

Last Post is a bugle call used at Commonwealth of Nations military funerals and ceremonies commemorating those who have been killed in a war.

Mail Call: Signals personnel to assemble for the distribution of mail.

Mess Call: Signals mealtime.

Officers Call: Signals all officers to assemble at a designated place.

Pay Call: Signals that troops will be paid.

Recall: Signals duties or drills to cease.

Retreat (Signals the end of the official day.) This bugle call is known as Sunset in the UK and British Commonwealth countries.

This call is also used to introduce Act 2 of La damnation de Faust of Hector Berlioz.

Reveille: Signals the troops to awaken for morning roll call. Used to accompany the raising of the National Colors.

The Rouse

School Call: Signals school is about to begin.

Sick Call (Signals all troops needing medical attention to report to the dispensary.)

Swimming Call

Taps: Signals that unauthorized lights are to be extinguished.

This is the last call of the day.

The call is also sounded at the completion of a US military funeral ceremony.

Tattoo (Signals that all light in squad rooms be extinguished and that all loud talking and other disturbances be discontinued within 15 minutes.)

To Arms (Signals all troops to fall under arms at designated places without delay.)

To The Colors (To the Colors is a bugle call to render honors to the nation.

It is used when no band is available to render honors, or in ceremonies requiring honors to the nation more than once.

To the Color commands all the same courtesies as the National Anthem.

The most common use of To The Colors is when it is sounded immediately following Retreat when the National Color is being lowered for the day.

Popular culture

Many of the familiar calls have had words made up to fit the tune. For example, the US Reveille goes:

I can't get 'em up,

I can't get 'em up,

I can't get 'em up this morning;

I can't get 'em up,

I can't get 'em up,

I can't get 'em up at all!

The corporal's worse than the privates,

The sergeant's worse than the corporals,

Lieutenant's worse than the sergeants,

And the captain's worst of all!

< repeat top six lines >

and the US Mess Call:

Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean!

Coffee, coffee, coffee, without a drop of cream!

Porky, porky, porky, without a streak of lean!

and the US Assembly:

There's a soldier in the grass

With a bullet up his ass

Take it out, take it out

Like a good Girl Scout!

Irving Berlin wrote a tune called, "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning". In a filmed version of his musical, This Is the Army, he plays a World War I doughboy whose sergeant exhorts him with this variant of words sung to "Reveille": "Ya gotta get up, ya gotta get up, ya gotta get up this morning!" after which Berlin sang the song.

"Taps" has been used frequently in popular media, both sincerely (in connection with actual or depicted death) and humorously (as with a "killed" cartoon character).

"Taps" is also quoted in the introduction to the popular big band hit Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince, likely the most well known recording was done by The Andrews Sisters.

First call is best known for its use in thoroughbred horse racing, where it is also known as the Call to the Post. It is used to herald (or summon) the arrival of horses onto the track for a race.

Another popular use of the "Mess Call" is a crowd cheer at football or basketball games. The normal tune is played by the band, with a pause to allow the crowd to chant loudly, "Eat 'em up! Eat 'em up! Rah! Rah! Rah!"

See also

Bugle calls of the Norwegian Army

1911 Encyclopdia Britannica article

Notes

^ Upton, Emory (1867). A New System of Infantry Tactics. pp. (appendix). 

External links

Bugle Calls by the U.S. Scouting Service Project

Bugle Calls and Marches by Frederick Military Academy Alumni

Official US Army Band Bugle Call Webpage

US Navy Manual For Buglers

British Army Bugle Calls (Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment)

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