GMC Hold Ninth Annual Grand Tattoo

Major General Peter J. Boylan, President, and the Board of Trustees of Georgia Military College hosted the school’s ninth annual Grand Tattoo on Friday, April 23.

A Military Grand Tattoo is an outdoor military exercise given by troops as evening entertainment, and is a program steeped with history and tradition. Georgia Military College’s eighth annual Military Tattoo featured the John Mohr Mackintosh Pipes and Drums Band, the GMC Color Guard and the GMC Marching Band. In addition, MAJ Linda Brown was recognized as GMC’s Prep Teacher of the Year, MAJ Brent Gebel was recognized as GMC’s Prep Character Educator of the Year, Assistant Professor Jeffery Wells was recognized as GMC’s Junior College Educator of the Year, and Assistant Professor Christy James was recognized as GMC’s Junior College Character Educator of the Year.

The deeply moving ceremony concluded with the formal retirement of the Nation’s Colors by a fourteen-member flag detail to mark the end of the day.