larry: this is armed forces week, and to honor those who are serving and have served this country, we welcome the 4troops quartet, who released their self-titled album this week. bonded by their military ties and love of music, they are former captain meredith melcher, she was a platoon leader in iraq. former sergeant daniel jens deployed to iraq as a crew member with the field artillery canon. he placed 11th on the season three of nbc s america s got talent. staff sergeant ron henry. recently retired after a 20-year career. and former sergeant david clemo, initially deployed in afghanistan after 9/11. and then to iraq, where he laid fiber-optic cables. meredith, how did this group come together. well, we actually knew one man who we had worked with at various points in our military music careers, and you know when
larry: this is armed forces week, and to honor those who are serving and have served this country, we welcome the four troops quartet who released their self-tielgtsd album this week. bonded by their military ties and love of music, they are former captain meredith melcher, she was a platoon leader in iraq. former sergeant daniel jens deployed to iraq as a crew member with the field artillery canon. he placed 11th on the season three of nbc s america s got talent. staff sergeant ron henry. recently retired after a 20-year career. and former sergeant david clemmo, initially deployed in afghanistan after 9/11. and then to iraq, where he laid fiber-optic cables. meredith, how did this group
come together. well, we actually knew one man who we had worked with at various points in our military music careers, and you know when the opportunity presented itself through sony, he sort of rounded us all up and about two days to go to new york and rehearse a couple of songs. we performed them for sony and they loved it and that s how we re here today. larry: so are you now going to be a group, daniel? are you going to go in concert? oh yes, larry, you know we re so excited. we ve already done a military tour through several different army and air force bases and now we re doing this a lot of media right now because the album s out but in the fall after our pbs special comes out we re going to do a huge tour. larry: that is great. ron, did the blending happen initially? how did the four of you hook up together? well, i mean, how we hooked up is we all knew a common man by the maim of victor