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An Old, Old Tradition:

April 18, 2007

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Airmen performed an Air Force Review on April 14 at the new Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. Hosted by Maj. Gen. Robert Smolen, commander of the Air Force District of Washington, the event marked the return of a 300-year-old military tradition stemming from the use of drummers to call English troops from their billets in towns and villages around a battlefield, reports SSgt. Madelyn Waychoff.

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