HM Kongens Garde Continued

[Scottie]

Weapon drills.
The Garde are known for their drills. They often perform at the Military Tatoo.
http://www.mil.no/multimedia/archive/00042/feltdrill_42147a.wmv



http://www.mil.no/multimedia/archive/00042/drillmann_42146a.mpg

[Scottie]

Any comments on these :roll: :roll:

[DE_Six]

Any comments on these :roll: :roll:

Sure. Links doesn't work at the moment. ;)

[Scottie]

Thought it was just me.. :lol: :lol:

[tuckerhat]

whoa.

my head is spinning after watching those. very VERY impressive. (how the heck do they move their hands so damn fast?)

[DE_Six]

Very impressive indeed. :)

[Scottie]

Guess its just great practise :)

[ronin2172]

in the first video...he was twirling a garand correct? Did Sweden use the Garand?

[Ian H]

No, they never did.
Norway, on the other hand, (where this unit is from) must have done.

[OldRecon]

No, they never did.
Norway, on the other hand, (where this unit is from) must have done.

Yep, think we used it between 1951 - the late 1960's, along with the BAR, the MP-40, and the US-Carabine M-1.
As for the US-Carabine think it was used here as a police weapon until quite recently. Though from the late 80's there have been some safety issues with those weapons, with several cases of lock mechanism failures receiver bursts.

[kinghk]

Yep, think we used it between 1951 - the late 1960's,



1967 I believe.




along with the BAR, the MP-40, and the US-Carabine M-1.



Atleast the MP-40 was in use within the Home Guard until early 90'ies.

[hoganshero]

Having had the pleasure of seeing the marine silent drill team (yes there really are no commands! it is done completely silent) I have to say you might be interested in their performance as well, If anyone has some info on them or a video it might be interesting to compare the two and see how similar they seem.