Editing Glenn Miller (section)

==Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra legacy==
The Major Glenn Miller Army Air Forces Orchestra's long-term legacy has carried on with the Airmen of Note,<ref name="arlington" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=US Air Force Bands |date=October 27, 2022 |title=The Airmen of Note |url=https://www.music.af.mil/USAFBand/Ensembles/Airmen-of-Note/ |access-date=October 27, 2022 |website=US Air Force Band |archive-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128083833/https://www.music.af.mil/USAFBand/Ensembles/Airmen-of-Note/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a band within [[the United States Air Force Band]].<ref name="arlington" /> "The Airmen of Note is the premier jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force. Stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., it is one of six musical ensembles that form The US Air Force Band."<ref name=":7" /> Created in 1950 to continue the tradition of Major Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces dance band, the current band consists of 18 active-duty musicians, including one vocalist. This band was created in 1950 from smaller groups within the [[Bolling Air Force Base]] in Washington, DC, and continues to play jazz music for the Air Force community and the general public. The legacy also continues through The United States Air Forces in Europe Band,<ref name="arlington" /><ref name=":7" /> stationed at [[Ramstein Air Base]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.music.af.mil/Bands/US-Air-Forces-in-Europe-Band/|title=US Air Forces in Europe Band|website=www.music.af.mil|access-date=April 12, 2019|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412141203/https://www.music.af.mil/Bands/US-Air-Forces-in-Europe-Band/|url-status=live}}</ref> Today, every branch of the US armed forces has a big band component.<ref name="arlington" /> This includes: The Ambassadors in US Army Air Forces Europe, The US Army Band's Army Blues, the US Army Field Band's Jazz Ambassadors, and the US Navy Commodores. The US Coast Guard has one musical organization to perform all types of music.<ref name="arlington" /> That includes a Coast Guard musical unit called the Guardians. The Coast Guard Band and Yale University bands performed a joint concert for the 75th anniversary of Miller's death.<ref name="arlington" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 10, 2019 |title=Yale Bands 1940s Holiday Re-Enactment: Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band 1944 Radio Show and 1940s All-Women Big Band |work=Yale News |url=https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/event/yale-bands-1940s-holiday-re-enactment-glenn-millers-army-air-force-band-1944-radio-show-and |access-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027221941/https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/event/yale-bands-1940s-holiday-re-enactment-glenn-millers-army-air-force-band-1944-radio-show-and |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2, 2019 |title=Yale Bands celebrates three anniversaries at its final concert of 2019 |work=Yale University News |url=https://news.yale.edu/2019/12/02/yale-bands-celebrates-three-anniversaries-its-final-concert-2019 |access-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027221941/https://news.yale.edu/2019/12/02/yale-bands-celebrates-three-anniversaries-its-final-concert-2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The military bands consist of units such as concert bands, marching bands, jazz orchestras, small combos, and elements that play swing, rock, country, and bluegrass.<ref name="arlington" /> Miller is considered to be the father of all modern United States military bands.<ref name="arlington" />

Miller "was a stickler for details and accuracy and always the truth. How delighted he would have been with Ed Polic's superbly documented report" wrote George Simon as he recommended, ''The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo Alas / I Sustain the Wings'' to readers of the ''American Reference Books Annual''. In 1314 pages, Polic covers a "small but significant period of Glenn Miller's life and music, from his enlistment in 1942 and the beginning of his [Army Air Forces Orchestra (band for short)] in 1943, through its end in late 1945, giving an overall history of the band and a detailed recounting of the day-by-day activities of the band."<ref>Polic, Edward F.&nbsp; ''The Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band: Sustineo Alas / I Sustain the Wings''.&nbsp; Metuchen, N.J.: [New Brunswick, N.J.]:&nbsp; Scarecrow Press; Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. 1989.&nbsp; ISBN 978-0810822696.</ref>