"On ships of the US Navy, First Call is sounded at 0755, 5 minutes ahead of Morning Colors (raising the national ensign), and 5 minutes before Evening Colors (lowering the national ensign). In the absence of a bugle, the word is passed, "First call, first call to colors." The same ceremony takes place on shore establishments but not on ships underway".
This is the way I remember it from my time in the NAVY, back in the Sixties. If you were driving on a Naval Base at 0759 (AM) you should be prepared to "Pull Over" and STOP for Colors at 0800. In the evening, Colors was held AT Sunset.
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Real Life long after the NAVY. I raize the ensign every day (Never in Bad Weather) the first chance I get in the morning, and Colors at Sunset....Again....IF I
Remember it....I'm just an Old Coot.
