What does the Coast Guard Pipe Band do?
The Coast Guard Pipe Band marches annually as a full band at the Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival and the Coast Guard National Memorial, a national vent held annually to honor the men and woman of the Coast Guard, band members have piped at a number of 9/11 memorial services, piped at the ceremony commissioning a Joint Coast Guard-Marine Corps unit, pipe at annual memorial services for Coast Guard members who died aboard the CGC BLACKTHORNE and CGC WHITE ALDER as well as Royal Navy sailors buried in the U.S. who died in WWII, pipe at the funerals of deceased members of the Coast Guard and other branches of the Armed Forces, piped at a memorial ceremony remembering those killed in the Vietnam War, pipe in support of Coast Guard Auxiliary public relations activities, piped at the launching of the CGC ALDER, play at numerous Coast Guard change of command and retirement ceremonies and piped at a number of ceremonies honoring members of the Armed Forces as they departed for Iraq.
