1988 Color Guard

The 1988 Bushwacker Color Guard was the first Bush Guard to take home the Best Color Guard trophy at DCA finals since the corps first fielded a marching corps in 1982. It was the first year for the collaboration of Randy Accardi and Jeannette Chambers as guard instructors and it brought together unbelievable talent from many different indoor color guards including Conquest, Imperial Knights and Rising Star, to name a few. Many of the guard members had marched in junior corps as well before making their way to Bushwackers including members of the award winning color guard of Spirit of Atlanta. And, many of the members of this guard have gone on to have great success in WGI, DCI and DCA even returning to the Bushwackers to carry on the tradition of innovative color guard and adding to the corps success by winning Best Color Guard trophies in 2006 and 2007 at DCA finals. And, this year, the Bushwackers welcome Darrell Woodliff as Color Guard Caption Head. Darrell Woodliff, along with Brian Sedatole, another 1988 guard member, arrived from Texas after a weeknight call to Jeannette introducing himself, in a very heavy Texas drawl, as Darrell from Texas and wondering “how do I join the Bushwackers?” Jeannette’s reply was “Is this a joke?” Well, it wasn’t a joke and Darrell and Brian arrived, as promised, via West Virginia, with tales of meeting Patrick Swayze while filming “Dirty Dancing 2” and even producing a photograph to prove it! That part was the joke!