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The National Guards Unit of Bulgaria on parade The Guard Battalion during the Estonia 100 parade in 2018 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 ...
The Wachbataillon (full name: Wachbataillon beim Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (WachBtl BMVg) (Guard Battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defence)) is the German Bundeswehr's honour guard. The Wachbataillon number about 1,000 soldiers stationed in Berlin .
Staff Sergeant Thomas E. McCall, Company F, 2d Battalion, was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions near San Angelo, Italy on 13 September 1943 during the Rapido River crossing in World War II. Technical Sergeant Stephen R. Gregg , Company L, 3d Battalion, was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions near Montélimar, France on 27 August 1944 ...
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 ...
The men were invited to volunteer for parachute service, or assigned to a new unit. The new battalions were then brought up to strength from volunteers from other units. The airlanding battalions came from existing infantry units that were converted to glider infantry, and the soldiers did not have the ability to opt-out. [36] [37] [38]
In 1918, Adolf Hitler returned to Munich after Germany's defeat in World War I.Similar to many German veterans at the time, he was left feeling bitter and frustrated. He believed in the widely held "Stab-in-the-back myth", that the German Army did not lose the war on the battlefield but on the home front due to the communists and Jews.
In 1995, the unit received the honorific name "Mihai Viteazul" (Michael the Brave) in an attempt to restore the old guard unit traditions of the Romanian Army. On 25 July 2001, it became a regiment again, being named the 30th Guards and Protocol Regiment Michael the Brave, then was renamed to the Michael the Brave 30th Guards Regiment in 2006.
The LSSAH, under the command of Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, continued to serve exclusively as a personal protection unit for Hitler and an honor guard during this timeframe. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] By 1937 the SS was divided into three branches: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS), the SS-Verfügungstruppe (SS-VT), and the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) which ...