U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Chris Grove, a Special Tactics combat controller assigned as the 720th Special Tactics Group superintendent, leads family members, friends and teammates in Memorial Pushups following his Silver Star Medal presentation ceremony at Hurlburt Field, Florida, Nov. 15, 2019. Grove was awarded the nation’s third-highest medal against an armed enemy of the United States in combat for his actions while deployed to Afghanistan in November 2007.
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Stavros,
Well, to each unit its own traditions. In "The Dawn Patrol" film re WWI, the pilots sang this while drinking the night before going up again...
The "show stopper" scene in that movie is not any of the combat sequences, but in the mess when the pilots drink a musical toast to the next man who dies. The lyrics used in the movie are an adaptation of a 19th-century poem out of India titled "The Revel" by Bartholomew Dowling. Here are the pilots singing their song:
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Errol Flynn Leads the Singing
We meet ’neath the sounding rafter,
And the walls around are bare;
They echo our peals of laughter
It seems that the dead are there.
So, stand to your glasses, steady!
This world is a world of lies.
Here's a toast to the dead already—
Hurrah for the next man who dies!
Cut off from the land that bore us,
Betray’d by the land we find,
The good men have gone before us,
And only the dull left most behind.
So, stand to your glasses, steady!
This world is a world of lies.
Then here's a toast to the dead already—
Hurrah for the next man who dies!
-Yankee Papa-