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  2. Military colours, standards and guidons - Wikipedia

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    The design of such colours are white with the royal arms at the centre and the unit insignia and honours at the sides. Second order colours – regimental/wing guidons and banners: In Spain's Armed Forces, guidons and banners are second order colours, but are smaller (guidons are medium square shaped while banners are small square shaped).

  3. Guidon (United States) - Wikipedia

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    19th century guidon used by the 7th Cavalry Regiment. In the United States Armed Forces, a guidon is a military standard or flag that company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and branch/corps affiliation or the title of the individual who carries it.

  4. Historical colours, standards and guidons - Wikipedia

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    The line heavy cavalry regiments (cuirassiers and carabiniers) and all hussar formations, as well as the foot artillery companies, carried standards with similar inscriptions as the infantry while the line cavalry regiments of dragoons and the lancers and Chasseurs-à-Cheval, as well as the horse artillery, all had swallowtailed guidons. In ...

  5. Guidon - Wikipedia

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    Guidon (music), a music notation symbol that is similar to a catchword in literature; Guidon (rank), a military rank equivalent to ensign; The GUIDON, the student newspaper of Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

  6. Flag of the United States Marine Corps - Wikipedia

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    A guidon for Company A, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines. A Marine guidon is always rectangular, 22 by 28 inches (56 by 71 cm), with a scarlet field and gold lettering, and an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor centered. Fleet Marine Forces units have "FMF" emblazoned above an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor (EGA), reserve units display "USMCR", and all others have ...

  7. Change of command - Wikipedia

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    Col. Jim Jones (right) accepts the 55th Wing’s guidon from Eighth Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder Jr. (left) during a wing change of command ceremony at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, USA.

  8. 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles - Wikipedia

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    The guidon of the 9th Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles Regiment is unique for its distinct New Zealand design and incorporation of the regional black and white of Hawke’s Bay. The guidon is made of black and white silk damask embroidered and fringed with gold. The tassels and cord of crimson and gold mixed.

  9. Colour guard - Wikipedia

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    1st 2 company guidon bearers; Unit colour; 2nd 2 company guidon bearers; Right escort; Brigade-level colours (and above) are guided by the left and right escorts only. The joint service colour guard of the ROCAF General Headquarters, today as in the past, is similarly composed but is more larger, with its composition being Left escort; Air ...