United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band

The USMMA is the only service academy outside of the six senior military colleges, to maintain a cadet-staffed band for musical purposes.

The regimental band routinely performs A Life on the Ocean Wave, the official march of the USMMA and the Star Spangled Banner at all ceremonies.

[2] As of 2018, the Academy's official website listed the band's director as Lieutenant Commander Bob Nixon.

[1][6] In 1999, Midshipman Lester Snyder, a trumpet player from Decatur, Illinois commented on the accomplishment: ''It's a great part of history.

[8] The band plays an essential in the "Ceremony of Beating Retreat", which is a military tattoo based in British roots.

The band during a 2016 performance in New York .
The band performing " A Life on the Ocean Wave "
George M. Cohan statue in Times Square
The United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band marching in review for the 2017 United States presidential inauguration parade
Field officers of United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band