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Fort Detrick Armed Forces Week Includes Carnival and Fireworks
Fort Detrick hosts a four day Armed Forces Week May 15 to 18 featuring a carnival open house and fireworks. Activities include concerts by Bill Harrell and the Virginians Electric Brigade and Don Barnes and the Countrymen plus band concerts and a SOS breakfast. Open house includes East Coast Telecommunications Center tours helicopter rappelling K nine dogs demonstrations and aircraft flyovers by the U.S. Navy and Army units. Tickets for rides cost four for ten with adult rides at 40 cents and children's rides at 60 cents. T shirts and hats with the Armed Forces logo sell for five.
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Fort Detrick
Army
Old Guard
Bill Harrell
The
Virginians
Electric Brigade
U.S. Naval Academy Band
Don Barnes
Debbie Williams
Countrymen
Medulla
Bob Hope
USO
Company A
Old Guard Fire
U.S. Infantry
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum
Pennsylvania
John Swomley
115Th Infantry
Maryland Army National Guard
Blue Grass Neighbors
501
Armed Forces