Brandes served in the United States Army Reserve from 1996 to 2007 following his graduation from the Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama in 1996 and while he attended Carson-Newman College, from which he graduated in 1999 with a degree in business administration.
In past years they have performed at such events as the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Indianapolis 500, and the Air Force Academy Invitational Drill Meet.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States Military Academy | California Institute of Technology | Art Institute of Chicago | Institute for Advanced Study | American Institute of Architects | military | Military Cross | Georgia Institute of Technology | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rochester Institute of Technology | Franklin Institute | Royal Institute of Technology | Pasteur Institute | Institute of Contemporary Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Film Institute | Pratt Institute | National Cancer Institute | Virginia Military Institute | Cato Institute | Australian Institute of Sport | Marion | Illinois Institute of Technology | Curtis Institute of Music | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Royal Military College of Canada | Royal Institute of British Architects |