Video by USASOC PAO
Lt. Dan Band performs at Fort Bragg Fairgrounds
Story by Sgt. Diandra J. Harrell
fiftieth Public Affairs Detachment
FORT BRAGG, N. C. (USASOC News Service, Sept. 17, 2012) — The gang of greater than 1,500 Troopers, Households and veterans, went wild throughout a free public live performance by the Lt. Dan Band on the Fort Bragg Fairgrounds, Sept. 14.
This occasion was held as a part of actor Gary Sinise and his band member’s, continued help of Troopers and native army communities.
“You serve a trigger higher than yourselves and when someone like me comes out with a band to play music for you all, I hope it lets you understand how a lot you imply to us,” stated Sinise, the bass guitar participant for the Lt. Dan Band.
As a part of the occasion, the USA Army Particular Operations Command Black Daggers jumped into the fairgrounds. The Black Daggers are the official USASOC Parachute Demonstration Crew who conducts stay airborne demonstrations in help of the Army Particular Operations neighborhood and recruiting.
After singer Jill Charles carried out the Nationwide Anthem, the live performance started as Sinise and his band members got here out on stage and took their positions. The gang roared as classics resembling Stevie Marvel’s, “Very Superstitious” and The Beatles, “Hey Jude” had been carried out.
“It is nice music,” stated Spc. Benjamin Applebaum, a fight documentation specialist with the Navy Data Assist Operations Command. “It is also free and gives Troopers one thing totally different to do.”
“As a Soldier such a occasion lets me know that folks keep in mind what we do and have not forgotten about us,” stated Spc. Jimmy Trejo, a visible info tools operator and upkeep specialist with MISOC.
Because the festivities got here to an in depth, Sinise praised the Troopers within the viewers.
“We’ve got the perfect army,” he stated. “You’re the suppliers of our freedom and we do not take that as a right.”
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