After parking, several family members recently climbed out of a big sport utility vehicle for a trip to the commissary. They had taken no more than 10 steps toward the front door when the Fort Knox ...

Ripping a bugle and hearing a bull respond is an experience like no other. It’s why elk hunters climb mountains every September. But don’t expect your calls to work every time. If you’re trying to ...

Starting Friday, the Carlisle Barracks will revive an Army tradition and sound additional bugle calls over the post loudspeaker system. The barracks said the bugle calls have signaled key times for ...

From the bugle call early in the morning to the cannon fire in the evening, people on military installations across the U.S. have become accustomed to these sounds, and Fort Rucker is no exception ...

Lexington’s Maria Cue has lived a stone’s throw from Hanscom Air Force Base, a military installation where more than 10,000 people live and work, for decades. That means the regular hum of planes ...

Each morning and evening on military posts, a bugle call, coinciding with the raising and lowering of the U.S. flag, can be heard. The songs — “Reveille” and “Retreat” — signify the start and end of ...

A soldier's day once was regulated by bugle calls. "Answer the bugle call" came to describe citizens responding to a national threat. President John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do ...

The languid, melancholy sound of a bugle call is a fixture at military funerals. But it wasn't always that way. The song taps used to signal 'lights out' for soldiers to go to sleep. Taps historian ...

Sue Guliani, the director of Jones Beach State Park, hears it when she's out on a morning walk. "The first time, I was like 'what is going on?' " said Guliani, who lives on the park grounds. "Now I ...

FORT BENNING, Ga., (Jan. 13 2016) -- Bugle calls have been an important tradition to the U.S. Army since its inception, dating back to pre-Revolutionary War times. Installations around the world use ...

Historically, the bugle was used in the cavalry to relay instructions to officers and soldiers during the great battles, assembling leaders, giving marching orders, and was the primary, effective, ...