SSG Jeffery Roskos
U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps

Originally from Orland Park, IL, Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Roskos began playing the piano at age six and the trumpet in sixth grade. After attending Western Illinois University, he taught privately, freelanced, and served as assistant band director at several private schools in the Chicago area. In 2001 he joined the United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, where he currently serves as bugler and trumpeter. His duties have included performing at the White House, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Capitol. He has performed Taps at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Pentagon 9-11 Memorial, and George Washington's Tomb at Mount Vernon. He has also served as a Baroque trumpeter, and has been an arranger for the Fife and Drum Corps since 2012. His primary teachers on trumpet have been David Blyth, Bruce Briney, Jon Dugle, and Phil Snedecor. Staff Sergeant Roskos currently resides in northern Virginia with his wife and two children.