drill teams & honor guards

[Chmiel]

http://web.carroll.edu/library/photos/archives/military2.jpg
US military drill c.1917

http://www.legion-aux.org/programs/docs/gnation/images/gnphotos_03/drill.jpg
US Army drill team

http://www.mdw.army.mil/images/photo_gallery/2002_TLT/05-15-02/images/Image05.jpg
US Army Drill Team

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/Photos/bulgaria04.jpg
Bulgarian (?) HG

http://www.egy.com/P/alamein/foreignlegion.jpg
French Foreign Legion

http://www.uth.tmc.edu/clinicalneuro/institute/2002/pictures/honor_guard.jpg
Greece

http://www.naszapolonia.com/mozaic/slowacy1.jpg
Polish Honor Guard

http://www.umgdy.gov.pl/kpw/galeria/kompania-big.jpg
Polish Navy

[NcDeuce]

You left out the best.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tomb-duskdod01.jpg
*Hint, hint*

A group of 'Old Guard' soldiers are coming down in about a month to show off their stuff here. That'll be a good experience.

[mustamato]

You left out the best.

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/tomb-duskdod01.jpg
*Hint, hint*

Yes he did. HMK garde from Norway:

http://www.mil.no/multimedia/archive/00032/370_parade-garden_32653a.jpg

http://www.mil.no/multimedia/archive/00032/370_Eskorte-garden_32652a.jpg
Does other stuff as well

[Midav]

Nice pics, Chmiel!

Only one that looks odd is the Greek one heh.

Not bashing on any Greeks here, but, it does look like they're wearing a dress.

The Russian honor guards that I've seen are also pretty cool.

[Jack Mehoff]

I don't want to sound too ethnocentric, but hahahahahahahahaha

http://www.uth.tmc.edu/clinicalneuro/institute/2002/pictures/honor_guard.jpg

[mustamato]

Ever given any thought of why the greek loke like that? Maybe because the
country and it´s civilization is a liiiiitle older than the US one. Well, about
2500 years older. I think they are proud of their traditions no matter what some
americans say.

http://www.hogvakten.mil.se/images/local/drabant.jpg
I like these, swedish "Drabanter", and aah yeah, these
uniforms were used before US declared their independency

http://www.mars11.net/agnes/bilder/stadsbesok/drabanterS.jpg

http://img11.photobucket.com/albums/v33/mustamato/P1100108.jpg
Leather from moose

[Jack Mehoff]

Professional drill teams have people with same exact height, size and same gender. Right?

[Ratamacue]

US Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/ae82f18a8e1b160b852568ba007e7e5e/9d6a52eb3051a26985256b0b005449ec/$FILE/Parade%20Marines%20High%20Res.jpg

USMC Silent Drill Platoon Demonstration (http://marines.com/player/pop.asp?video=USMC_10)

[mustamato]

Professional drill teams have people with same exact height, size and same gender. Right?

Same race as well (see pic above)?

[soma]

Go Mounties :D

[Midav]

Ever given any thought of why the greek loke like that? Maybe because the
country and it´s civilization is a liiiiitle older than the US one. Well, about
2500 years older. I think they are proud of their traditions no matter what some
americans say.

May be older and may be proud, but funny is funny ;)

As said, not getting on to any Greeks.

[khukuri]

When I was an honour guard guest at the swedish castle we had a visit from many countries. It was an honour guard happening. I think the norweigans and the (maybe)scottish impressed me most.

Edit:

Ofcourse i forgot probably the best. Something ive only seen on tv, the lenin guard :)

[Sorbas2000]

Bulgarian Army Guard of Honour

http://mixile.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/maxim_blesses_army_6jan2003.jpg
http://mixile.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/11-04-2002_en.jpg
http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/New/Europe-9911/photos/day8/photo1.jpg
http://www.globalgayz.com/BulgariaGalleryC/images/IMG_7357.jpg

[khukuri]

russian, but still no lenin guard :(
http://www.capital-eye.ru/objfiles/iC8A9D704/03.08.04d-08.jpg
http://pro.corbis.com/images/UT0143939.jpg?size=67&uid={c83051a9-ad88-48c8-a343-0cb4d2423c1c}
http://pro.corbis.com/images/UT0108400.jpg?size=67&uid={de163c02-efde-4c6e-8276-dc08cdb97cf5}
http://pro.corbis.com/images/AAJC001656.jpg?size=67&uid={6795ec13-caca-4ed8-9393-f7ae19fcc87e}

http://pro.corbis.com/images/U1668340.jpg?size=67&uid={c3ea3f50-4efe-4850-9ab2-93e691710c8c}

sweden

http://www.livgardet.mil.se/images/local/grenadjvakt.jpg
http://www.livgardet.mil.se/images/local/kortege.jpg
http://www.livgardet.mil.se/images/local/grenadjv_1.jpg

honour guard is ****, did it three times. Fun the first 2 days, but thats it.

[Maine Finn]

http://www.spectrumcolourlibrary.com/britain/sc1414.jpg

http://www.adigitek.com/Corvettes/images/disk3717/IMG0024.jpg

http://images.fotopic.net/?id=643939&outx=640&oq=0

http://www.yarmouthminutemen.com/images/BH1.jpg
And a picture of some re-enactors that I thought I'd throw in. (I like the scarlet coats.)

[DE_Six]

Professional drill teams have people with same exact height, size and same gender. Right?

Same race as well (see pic above)?

Take a good look.

Second Marine from the left is black.

Answers your question?

[flanker7]

Ever given any thought of why the greek loke like that? Maybe because the
country and it´s civilization is a liiiiitle older than the US one. Well, about
2500 years older. I think they are proud of their traditions no matter what some
americans say.

May be older and may be proud, but funny is funny ;)

As said, not getting on to any Greeks.


I'm not offended in any way but just for the reccord greek civilisation is much older than 2500 years, Trojan war was fought at about 1000 B.C. , and as for the "dress" wearing that dress Greeks liberated most of Greece in the 1800s. And the picture is from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens where there is an honor guard 365 days a year 24 hours a day, no matter what the weather is like. And thats the least a nation can do for the people who die for it. :)

[AVZ]

the german counterpart: The "Wachbataillon" ( Guard Batallion )

http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/wir/031103_500_bg10mmf_flaggen.jpg

http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/wir/031103_500_bg09mmf_ehrenbataillon.jpg


http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/wir/bilderbuch/geloebnis_in_berlin.jpg

http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/galerie/geloebnis20juli2003/geloeb10_gr.jpg


http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/service/bundeswehr_aktuell/0348_0809.jpg


together with some french music corps soldiers:

http://www.bundeswehr.de/pic/galerie/geloebnis20juli2003/geloeb07_gr.jpg

[digrar]

It was nice to be able to show mum and dad some flash drill when I marched out of recruits. It was also nice to be able to march in step during ANZAC day parades and our welcome home parade. But apart from that I feel drill was a massive waste of my time.
Is there anything worse than standing on a parde ground for hours on end not listening to boring speaches? The only fun is watching people pass out from heat exhaustion. :D

[Sorbas2000]

the german counterpart: The "Wachbataillon" ( Guard Batallion )

German Guards look al little bit unspectacular...something like old german Wehrmacht uniforms. As I know there are a lot of traditions in german army...so why not using old uniforms from brandenburg, prussia, saxonia, bavaria etc.?

[Kampfhamster]

I don't want to sound too ethnocentric, but hahahahahahahahaha

http://www.uth.tmc.edu/clinicalneuro/institute/2002/pictures/honor_guard.jpg

almost as funny as the swiss guard in Rome
http://www.og-burgdorf.ch/archiv/rueckblicke/rom/bilder/stadt/pics/images/schweizergarde_01.jpg
http://www.joachim-gross.de/img/schweizergarde.jpg

[Chmiel]

another nice pics
http://www.lowcountrynow.com/images/092803/full_slice.jpg
http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/image1.nsf/Lookup/200365102755/%24file/silentdrill2low.jpg
http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/SoundOFF/archives/SO2002/May23/images/cover.jpg
http://philadelphia.about.com/library/gallery/marineday20.jpg
USMC

[sierraone]

The USMC silent drill team is very impressive. I am all for ceremony in a nation's armed forces as it instills confidence in the public of the discipline and professionalism of it's servicemen.
I wouldn't knock any uniforms gentlemen as they are usually of a very old design when most of the population were wearing stuff like that.
The americans seem to be smarter as these uniforms were designed about 100 years ago not 500 or thousands.

[perdurabo]

I prefer old uniforms like swiss guard of Watykan, few years ago we wanted some old uniforms(like swiss guard or so) for our city guard(local forces like police payed from city cash but with less competences they keep order in town but they dont do inwestigation etc...) doing patrols in old city, as turistic attraction of course politics fuc** this :]
Polish uni. looks cool :)