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The group forms a voluntary honor guard at military burials, helps protect mourners from harassment and fills out the ranks at burials of indigent and homeless veterans. In addition to attending funerals, the group also greets troops returning from overseas at homecoming celebrations and performs volunteer work for veteran's organizations such ...
Texas State Guardsmen pass out free water after flooding contaminated a local water supply. Georgia Defense Force members unload water and ice in anticipation of incoming Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Texas State Guard during a Land Navigation joint training exercise.
Guardsman is a rank used instead of private in some military units that serve as the official bodyguard of a sovereign or head of state. It is also used as a generic term for any member of a guards unit of any rank.
Soldiers from the Hungarian Defence Forces form a guard of honour at a welcome ceremony for US president George W. Bush's visit to Hungary, 2006. A guard of honour (Commonwealth English), honor guard (American English) or ceremonial guard, is a group of people, typically drawn from the military, appointed to perform ceremonial duties – for example, to receive or guard a head of state or ...
A member of the National Guard, often called a "guardsman," is a person who has signed an Enlistment Contract and has subscribed to an Enlistment Oath, is still alive, or has not yet been discharged. The subscription to the oath (typically a recitation) and the signature must be witnessed by a person, typically a Guard officer, authorized as an ...
Personnel; Military age: 17 with parental consent, 18 for voluntary service. [b]Conscription: Male only (inactive since 1973) Available for military service
The term coast guardsman is the correct form of address used in Title 14 USC and is the form that has been used historically. This changed the line in the Guardian Ethos "I am a Guardian." to become "I am a Coast Guardsman." [110] The Ethos is:
The New York Air National Guard (NY ANG) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of New York.It is an element of the New York National Guard as part of the larger Air National Guard, a reservist force under the command of the United States Air Force.