Newport Navalog

Members of the 55-man 2nd Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps made their first formal appearance at Recruit Training Command graduation ceremonies Wednesday.

The Corps, composed entirely of recruits, manages to maintain a high standard of performance despite the fact that its ranks are juggled each week because of the graduation and assignment of members.

Supervising the group are Chief Comer Richards, QMC, and J. H. Knight, Co. 1st Div., is drum major. A native of Philadelphia, Pa., and

The corps equipment consists of 26 soprano and 8 baritone bugles, 16 snare drums, two Scotch drums, two bell lyres and two cymbals.

The bugles are the American Legion type, chrome-plated piston bugles about eight inches longer than the regularly used Navy brass bugle. The snare drums are pearl inlaid and chrome trimmed.

The Scotch drums are brass drums built narrowly so that the bearer may have sufficient room to drum both sides at the same time or twirl the baton-like sticks while marching.

Chief Richards headed drum and bugle corps at the Naval

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Training Station from 1935 to 1938 and Chief Jordan served here in that capacity from 1943 to 1945. They also have served consecutively as bugle masters at the Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.