What is it?

The Operations Taps / DCA Challenge is a project that encourages and quantifies member organizations’ involvement in their community and participation in Veterans Honors events.

Here's the problem:

In many communities, drum corps aren't making themselves available to Veteran's organizations, OR they've passed on requests so many times that VFWs and American Legion Posts are reluctant to even bother to call a drum corps.

The process that families of vets go through relies on that communities' veterans organization to provide a bugler. Veterans organizations that have given up on us just reach for the Fake Bugle or BoomBox.

Let's Drive The Solution:

The Operation Taps / DCA Challenge

December 7, 2007 through August 15, 2008
Winners announced Labor Day Weekend 2008 in Rochester, NY

EVERY DCA member organization will be listed on this site and tracked in a variety of categories.

All member corps will be listed: DCA competing corps, Alumni corps, Mini-Corps, and Brass Ensembles.

The Rules:
- Contact veteran's organizations and/or funeral professionals and tell them that you would like to have your organization be on their list to provide a Live Taps Bugler FREE of CHARGE (you may , if you wish, respectfully discuss the possibility of a strictly OPTIONAL gratuity) .
- Provide any information needed for that organization to contact your corps.
- On a regular basis - at least monthly - email OperationTaps.org with the total number of organizations you are registered with along with other information.
- Remember that you are acting on behalf your corps. Your conduct is not the responsibility of OperationTaps.org.
- Be respectful
- Be professional

You will be measured on:

1) The number of organizations your corps has registered with.
2) The number of community, veterans related, or any other patriotic performances your corps has done.
3) The number of actual Live Taps Performances your corps has done for a US Military Veteran.

Click enter the Operation Taps / DCA Challenge page.

*** Your involvement is strictly voluntary. OperationTaps.org is NOT affliated with DCA. ***

OperationTaps.org A Civilian Taps Volunteer Organization

The Operation Taps / DCA Challenge

OperationTaps.org
A Civilian Taps Volunteer Organization