People and leadership
The reviewed evidence for 395th Army Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.
Community and organization
395th Army Band is treated as a military or veterans ensemble under the unit, post, ship, or veterans affiliation stated in its name and evidence. The packet does not infer a different command relationship or uninterrupted unit lineage.
Reading the evidence
The reviewed evidence supports 1943–present as the verified program history. Any newly identified hiatus, reorganization, or successor relationship should be added explicitly rather than assumed.
Questions for further research
A fuller leadership succession, membership history, selected performance chronology, and image provenance would enrich the 395th Army Band packet, but none is required to support its present text-readiness judgment.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1943 – 1949
Official Army Reserve history places the predecessor lineage of the 395th Army Band in Oklahoma City/Mustang by 1949. The present 395th designation should not be retroactively imposed on every 1940s record.
- 1943-08-02
Constituted August 2, 1943 for the 95th Infantry Division; later based in Mustang and assigned to 63rd Regional Support Command from October 2009.
- 2026
The 395th Army Band is listed in the current Oklahoma Bands brass-band directory.