Quote Originally Posted by davedove View Post
I just received an email from Alexis Malcolm about the US Army tartan. Here is an excerpt:

Art has just returned from 18 months of duty at West
Point & while there he lobbied the Director of Music
to get the US Army Tartan accepted by the Army as
their official Tartan. He had a call yesterday from
the Director to tell him that it had come down from
the Pentagon that the Army is now in the process of
doing just that & its status will be official shortly.
The US Military Academy (West Point) also has their own tartan which their pipe band wears:

http://www.usma.edu/USCC/dca/clubs/C...Info/pipd.html

I wonder if they can play Benny Havens on the pipes?

Come fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row,
To singing sentimentally, we're going for to go,
In the army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow,
So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens, oh!

-- http://www.west-point.org/greimanj/w...ennyhavens.htm

Cheers,

Todd