The Air National Guard band program currently features 11 bands around the country. However, due to recent budget cuts, 6 of these bands will be shut down no later than 1 Oct 2013. The National Guard has worked alongside their active duty counterparts in deploying these bands to warzones to entertain troops, and one of the groups among those to be cut, Sidewinder, has earned the Guard nationwide recognition and news coverage through their efforts overseas. Forcing cuts on these bands, which have traditionally served as the military's goodwill ambassadors, is not an appropriate solution to the military's budget problems. These issues do need to be addressed, but not at the expense of our troops' morale.
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