Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys of Hanscom Field

If you live in North Lincoln, anywhere near Minuteman National Park, you’ll know what I mean, if not read on.
Imagine your neighbor turns their ghetto blaster real loud and 3 times a day, 7 days a week, treats you to his ‘musack de vie’.

How did it come to this? First train whistles in the South and now bugles in the North.

I first ‘noticed’ the testing of a new sound system back in July, when Hansom Air Force Base was saved from the wrecker’s ball by the Base Re-Alignment and Closure Commission (BRACC).
I assumed it was a celebration, parade, publicity stunt or just the military being the military.

Over the next week the sound volume increased further, as did the number of times played.

Now we have:

7:30am – Reveille and the Star Spangled Banner; to start of the working day.

4:30pm – Retreat and the Star Spangled Banner; to end of the official working day.

9:00pm – Taps signaling lights out. (I noticed they don’t actually turn the lights out, which I think is cheating).

So will the selectmen come to the aid of North Lincoln? Do we need a whistle blower ?

Should we sound the call to arms or just be glad that BRAC did not close this fine R&D establishment and that we can still hear the bugles above the roar of Hanscom Airfield, New England’s busiest private jet airfield?