Band Director

Major George McNeill, VA Militia

Major George McNeill

Major George McNeill, a retired member of the United States Army, comes to the Highty-Tighties after 22 years of enlisted military service in the Army Band Program. Upon completion of AIT at the Naval School of Music in 1968, Major McNeill was assigned to the 324th US Army Band, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland. In 1975, he was reassigned to the 296th Army Band in Camp Zama, Japan. In 1979, he returned to the US to serve with the First US Army Band, Fort Meade, MD until his retirement in 1990. Major McNeill took over as band director for the Highty-Tighties in 1992 as a member of the VA Militia, and has overseen the rise of the band in terms of numbers and musical quality.