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A saber arch at the wedding of a US Army officer and his bride. A saber arch is a wedding tradition in which sabers or swords are used to salute a newly married couple. The bride and groom pass under an honorary arch of sabers, typically when exiting the building in which the wedding ceremony took place. The tradition is in use worldwide.
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 ...
Minnesota Medal for Merit - The Minnesota Medal for Merit may be awarded to any member of the Minnesota National Guard who, while serving as a member of the military forces of the State of Minnesota or as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States shall have distinguished themselves by exceptionally meritorious service/achievement.
A guard mounting ceremony at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. Guard mounting, changing the guard, or the changing of the guard, is a formal ceremony in which sentries performing ceremonial guard duties at important institutions are relieved by a new batch of sentries. The ceremonies are often elaborate and precisely choreographed.
There would be bed-and-breakfast, a wedding venue, a cigar bar and a water taxi connecting the site, on the Fort Pierce Inlet, to the much larger hotel at King's Landing, on the mainland.
National Guard officers also came from the middle and upper classes. [53] National Guard troops were deployed to suppress strikers in some of the bloodiest and most significant conflicts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Homestead Strike, the Pullman Strike of 1894, and the Colorado Labor Wars.
The Nevada National Guard honored Garrison Brown in a ceremony on Sunday, March 24, at the Clark County Armory.. Brown was a staff sergeant in the Nevada National Guard and a member of the 1st ...
An Illinois National Guard member died after suffering heat injuries during outdoor fitness activities at a military base in Mississippi, authorities say. The 38-year-old man was treated by a ...