Motto | To promote and preserve the military precision style of performance among marching bands of America and to encourage the superior performance of traditional march music from band literature |
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Purpose | High School Military Marching Bands |
Headquarters | Carthage, Texas |
President-Kristy Jones Executive Secretary-Jim Jones Publicity Chairman-Denver Satterwhite Board Member-Don Lawler Board Member-Doice Grant |
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Website | http://nammb.org |
Remarks | National Military Marching Competition (2016) Grand Champion: Lufkin High School |
President-Kristy Jones Executive Secretary-Jim Jones Publicity Chairman-Denver Satterwhite Board Member-Don Lawler
The National Association of Military Marching Bands (NAMMB) is a National Organization with its headquarters in Carthage, Texas. The purpose of the Association is to preserve the rich style of military style marching. It was founded in 1974 by 11 east texas band directors. With the forming of NAMMB the styles history and precision was saved. Today, NAMMB has almost 160 member across 6 states. In military bands a featured twirler or rank of twirlers is common and tradition.
The National Association of Military Marching Bands has its headquarters in Carthage, Texas. The headquarters has been the same place since the beginning of NAMMB. The executive Secretary is Jim Jones.