Ohio State band member returns after Afghanistan deployment

COLUMBUS, Ohio — At all times keep in mind your house. Know the place you belong. Your mark. Your line. Your small piece that enhances that huge image.

Greater than that, all the time keep in mind why you do what you do.

“Loads of honor,” Sarah Ellis stated. “Loads of custom. They form of go hand-in-hand. Form of synchronous at occasions.”

Ellis is part of the band. Sure, that band. The perfect rattling band.

She’s the bass drum squad chief and performs third bass. She is aware of that feeling.

“It actually doesn’t have a phrase to explain it,” she stated. “It’s form of the goosebumps and the tingling sensation you get on the again of your neck while you come down that ramp.”

She is aware of that indescribable second on the intersection of honor and respect the place the eyes of 100,000 Buckeye trustworthy stay unblinking, targeted on you.

“Sure,” she stated. “Adrenaline for positive.”

And when that beat drops she is aware of her place and each step is all that issues.

“It simply brings the gang a bunch of craziness,” she stated. “They find it irresistible.”

Ellis began with the band in 2017. Then, in 2020, her place and accountability known as.

“Yep, I’m within the Air Nationwide Guard,” she stated.

It began with a incorrect name. The Air Nationwide Guard known as, in search of one other “Sarah,” and acquired Ellis, as a substitute.

“And once they stated I may serve and go to highschool…not solely pay for it, however I may do it alongside it, not have to interrupt aside my lecturers, it pertained to me and I simply joined on the spot,” she stated. “I didn’t even assume a second considered it.”

In 2020, Ellis served her first deployment spending 4 months in Bagram, Afghanistan, supporting crew chiefs whereas ensuring gear was repaired, maintained, and able to go.

Ellis rejoined the bass line in 2021 and this 12 months is the primary 12 months she’s marching as a married girl after marrying her husband, Anthony, in Could.

“We’re each loopy Buckeye followers, for positive,” she stated.

She says what the army and marching band each share in frequent is a way of group and goal.

Now in her final 12 months, she’ll be the primary to let you know each on the sphere and off she’s all the time identified her place.

“I’m gonna take this 12 months and actually undergo Cranium Session,” she stated. “I’m gonna watch the staff play. I’m gonna sit within the stands and revel in each second of it [and] get pleasure from each halftime efficiency, each run via the music and never take something as a right.”

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