Talk:Reveille

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Hey everyone, do you think we should have a reveille ambiguous page?

Where did the tune come from? Why was "Reveille" chosen for its title? Did the "Reveille" tune replace an earlier tune to start the army's morning?

Wikipedia was my final resort for this research, and offered me no enlightenment. sigh

20:15, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Flag raising
This article states that the flag is raised during Reveille on US bases. As far as I know, though I am not an expert on the Army or Air Force, that's untrue. The flag is raised later, during Colors. I'll wait a few days before fixing it, in case anyone has objections. Kafziel 18:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * If memory serves, you're correct. First comes Reveille or Retreat, then the cannon, then To the Color while the flag goes up or down. Outdoors within earshot, individuals not in formation are supposed to face the music on their own and come to parade rest before the gun, present arms or salute after, while To the Color is sounding. _ Just plain Bill 22:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Usually Reveille is sounded at 0530 Monday-Saturday, and at 0600 on Sunday, as Sunday is traditionally not a training day in any of the schools in the Armed Forces in the U.S.

Typically, Reveille is not sounded on installations where the U.S. does not own the base, as a gesture to the host nation, especially if host nation forces are also stationed on the base.

The usual timeline for morning is this: 0530 or 0600 - Reveille sounds. 0758        - 2 Minute warning to colors is sounded. 0800        - Attention is sounded. At this time, units are brought to a halt, and the unit commander turns to face the music and salutes. Individuals stop, come to the position of attention, and salute the music. All hold the salute for the duration of the music. Depending on the installation, the music will either be To the Colors, or The Star Spangled Banner, depending on the day. Usually, the Star Spangled Banner is played on Fridays, with To the Colors played on other days. Upon completion of To the Colors, the call for carry on will be sounded, and you are released to carry on with what you were doing before Colors.


 * To whomever wrote the above, this might be true at certain installations, but the order and time is not determined by a "usual way", it is done at the discretion of base/post/camp/etc. commanders. In addition, I have heard Reveille played at bases on foreign soil too, so your assertion is not true. If you disagree, please cite a source of some kind. Also, please sign your posts. — BQZip01 —  talk 17:40, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

I serve in the Air Force and per Air Force instruction 36-2903 Military members stand at Parade rest as reveille is played. You snap to attention and salute while To the Colors is played. Can this be corrected in the main article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.178.234 (talk) 01:34, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Small issue in the music
In the music presented here, for some reason there are ties where there should be slurs. Such as the two sixteenth notes in measure 1. I would fix it if I knew how. Someone who can, please fix this. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JPadron (talk JPadron 13:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Texas A&M mascot
I removed a new sentence from the lead paragraph which referred to Reveille (Texas A&M), since it's covered there very thoroughly and the Reveille (disambiguation) page is just one click away. Beautiful dogs, though! :) Best wishes, DBaK (talk) 16:53, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 one external links on Reveille. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20131030085322/http://www.esercito.difesa.it/Comunicazione/Mediateca/Audio/Documents/Segnali_di_caserma/sveglia.mp3 to http://www.esercito.difesa.it/Comunicazione/Mediateca/Audio/Documents/Segnali_di_caserma/sveglia.mp3
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20040508011907/http://www.mil.no:80/multimedia/archive/00012/01__Revelje_12472a.WMA to http://www.mil.no/multimedia/archive/00012/01__Revelje_12472a.WMA

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Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 15:37, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

What a mess
It should be, but apparently isn't (at least not to the editors) obvious that different tunes should be kept separate and not mixed into a mash-up of ambiguity. Example:"British Army Cavalry and Royal Horse Artillery regiments sound a call different from the infantry version shown below, known as "The Rouse" but often misnamed "Reveille", while the Scottish Regiments of the British Army sound a pipes call of the same name.[citation needed]" Wow. Perhaps this totally run-on sentence should run on another couple of hundred words? I mean why not. "while the Scottish Regiments..sound a pipes call of the same name." Same name? TWO NAMES were mentioned! Are we supposed to divine which is meant? If "the Rouse" isn't reveille, then it deserves little or no space in the lead. Perhaps a "not to be confused with" statement. I also question the lyrics of the USA version. Specifically, the line that goes "I can't get them up this morning". The way I learned it, it was "I can't get them up in the morning". Now I have no idea whether the version I learned is right, but it fits the notes better so I am mentioning it here. I'd say citation needed, but the seems to be little maintenance of this and so I doubt whether they'll ever be provided. The supposed lyrics to the so-called Commonwealth version don't fit the US lyrics AT ALL. A complete clusterFk. 173.184.25.50 (talk) 02:14, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
 * So did you like it, or not? DBaK (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

There are no official words, just what are in effect various “folk” words made up by various and for the most part unknown individuals. As often happens, one person can hear something different and thus slight variations occur. I’m familiar with a version where the second half goes “get up you silly monkeys, get up get out of bed” then repeats those words. Wschart (talk) 14:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)