 My name is Staff Sergeant Aaron Morgan. My MS is 42 Sierra, and we're the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. Hi, I'm Staff Sergeant Jamal Jenkins. I am a musician and I play the tuba. I went to school for fleet performance and after finishing my master's degree I was taking auditions for full-time jobs as a musician and so I was very interested in orchestras and also the military bands and there were a number of alumni from my alma mater that ended up joining this unit and so that's how I found out about it and I had a lot of marching background in my in my life experience and so it felt like a good fit so I just decided to take the audition and it worked out. I was my fourth year of college and I was wondering like everybody else what am I gonna do with my life. Good thing I had a buddy that was in the Army Band, saw some pictures that he posted and I loved it. He's making money from doing what I've been doing for years. So I called him on the phone and I was like hey, can you help me out? Can you give me an audition? Long story short, he got me the audition. I auditioned for the Army Band. I shipped off to basic training for ten weeks and rest is history. Well we're primarily a ceremonial unit and so we we represent the the roots of our country's heritage in a ceremonial way and so we do a lot of retirement ceremonies, change of command, change of responsibility ceremonies and also arrival ceremonies for foreign dignitaries and heads of state sometimes at the White House and so we serve a ceremonial purpose but we also represent the heritage of our country and the roots of Fife and Drum music in the Army as just as a career musician. Getting to work with other amazing musicians, getting to travel a little bit. It's for somebody that wants to play music and for our group plays the Flute or Piccolo or the Fife, the trumpet or the bugle and rudimental drums this is really just the place to be.