 As a tension grew between Japan and the United States, we started new, what we call, fitness training. So every so often we'd have to go make hikes through the city. It wasn't much territory for us to hike in. We did have a couple of parks, but most of the time we just marched into the street. And we easily carried a heavy marching order, which was all the material you would need to live in the field. The band still just did its duty without interruption. We continued to play our concert, but we made the marching order along with the rest of the troops. One of the elite characters of the Marine Corps in the old days was one Chesty Puller, which everybody knows, was the executive officer of the Second Battalion. And each of the battalions had what they called a group of field musics, which were drummers and buglers that performed their duties in addition to their service within the battalion. But for parades and ceremonies, the buglers and drummers joined the band to make a pretty sizable organization on the street, a very impressive one. And people that are still well remembered, I think, particularly the ones that were children, are now can recall that. So we always put it that the band helped the regiment put its best foot forward for America's presence in the Far East.