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| | Marine Corps News -> USMC Drum & Bugle Corps Conquers FedEx Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | While the field had been rained on all day, "it was a pretty decent, nice, soft field for the performance," said Hanson. |
 | | However, at the beginning of a performance year, the corps chooses six songs for field performances, so it was just a matter of adjusting the march on and off to the setup at FedEx Field, said Staff Sgt. Justin Bakewell, public affairs chief for the corps. |
 | | Its 80 members represent the Marines Corps and the United States at military and public ceremonies around the world as the modern heirs to the "field musics" tradition, in which orders were relayed to troops in the field via musicians in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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