The United States Army Field Band performs "The Army Goes Rolling Along", The Official Song of The United States Army. Arranged by SGM (ret.) Paul Murtha. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Bamonte. | The United States Army Field Band

"The Army Goes Rolling Along" is the official Army song. But did you know it had two other names? First Lieutenant Edmund L. Gruber, a descendent of Franz Gruber, the composer of "Silent Night," while stationed in the Philippines in 1908, wrote the “Caisson Song” based on his experience in a Field Artillery Battery. The caisson was an essential piece of equipment because it carried the artillery ammunition. In 1917, John Philip Sousa transformed the song into a march, and the song was renamed “T