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The Home Guard also played a significant part in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. In it, the lead character, a career soldier who had retired from the active list, joins the Home Guard and rises to a leadership position in it.
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A Zemessardze (Latvian National Guardswoman) guards the battalion tactical operations center during the Strong Guard 2016 (Zobens 2016) distinguished visitor's day.. Home guard is a title given to various military organizations at various times, with the implication of an emergency or reserve force raised for local defense.
This is a list of past and present army units whose names include the word guard. Border guards , coast guards , civil guards , home guards , national guards , honor guards , republican guards , imperial guards and royal guards are listed under their own articles.
The Air Force Home Guard would have provided additional ground and air defense personnel to the Air Force, and would have manned the co-located operating base at which U.S. Air Force reinforcement would have been based. The Naval Home Guard (Marinehjemmeværnet (MHV)) had a small number of ships for coastal surveillance. These included the MH ...
A militia, home guard, state guard or state military may constitute part of a military reserve force, such as the United States National Guard and the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Home Guard. In some countries (including Colombia, Israel, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan), reserve service is compulsory for a number of years ...
He cited how 28.9 percent of total hours worked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 24.4 percent of hours worked by U.S. Coast Guard personnel and 39.7 percent of hours for the Cyber ...
United States Coast Guard personnel (15 C, 1 P) V. Vice Commandants of the United States Coast Guard (35 P)