Louder than bombs
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US armed forces have a secret weapon: a jazz band that knows how to take a nation by storm.
ByMegan GibsonPhotographyBrendan Hoffman
Lieutenant Colonel Don Schofield has a strategy. “Here’s what I’m thinking,” he says excitedly to Master Sergeant David Dell and Technical Sergeant John Dawson. He points to a somewhat bewildered looking man clutching a chromatic accordion in the stairwell of Kiev’s Central Officers’ House of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “This guy – a Ukrainian accordion player – playing in our rhythm section tonight. He’ll tear it up.”
Lt Col Schofield, MSgt Dell and TSgt Dawson are all part of the European branch of the US Air Force Band – Schofield is the con…