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The Rolling Soldier - Netflix

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The story follows Connor Flynn, a CIA Special Ops sniper who wakes up from a 10 year coma to discover that he and his covert special ops team are on the run and hiding after being wrongly accused of selling secret plans to terrorists.

The Rolling Soldier - Netflix

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 8 minutes

Premier: 2015-06-10

The Rolling Soldier - The Army Goes Rolling Along - Netflix

“The Army Goes Rolling Along” is the official song of the United States Army and is typically called “The Army Song”. It is adapted from an earlier work titled the “U.S. Field Artillery March”.

The Rolling Soldier - History - Netflix

The United States Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard had adopted official songs, and the Army was eager to find one of its own. They conducted a contest in 1948 to find an official song, but no entry received much popular support. In 1952, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace asked the music industry to submit songs and received more than 800 submissions. “The Army's Always There” by Sam Stept won, and an Army band performed it at President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural parade on January 20, 1953. However, many thought that the tune was too similar to “I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts,” so the Army decided to keep much of the melody from the U.S. Field Artillery March but with new lyrics. Harold W. Arberg was a music advisor to the Adjutant General; he submitted lyrics which were accepted. Secretary of the Army Wilber Marion Brucker dedicated the music on Veterans Day, November 11, 1956. The song is played at the conclusion of most U.S. Army ceremonies, and all soldiers are expected to stand at attention and sing. When more than one service song is played, they are played in the order specified by Department of Defense directive: Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

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