Another tartan I'm gonna have to have...

[macwilkin]

Well, I'm unsure about the history of the USAFR Pipe band and their tartan. But the Lady Jane tartan was unoficially "adopted" by the USAF not the USAFR Pipe Band. As far as I know the USAFR Pipe band did and still wears the Billy Mitchell tartan.

I saw them perform several years ago on a show on PBS (may have been Austin City Limits St. Patrick's Day show), and they were wearing the Lady Jane, not the Mitchell tartan.

On the USAFR P & D's web page, it is stated:

The official tartan of the Air Force Reserve was authorized and approved in September 1987 by the Tartan Society in Edinburgh, Scotland.

-- http://www.band.afrc.af.mil/organiza...et.asp?id=3704

If memory serves me correctly, the Lady Jane was "reassigned" as the USAFR tartan. From the way it reads, the tartan is the "official" tartan of the Reserves. The CMH plate I mentioned earlier did say that the band was disbanded in the 1970's, but the fact sheet from the USAFR seems to contradict this.

The tartan is this pictures to be the "Lady Jane":



Regards,

Todd