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Couldn't Put It Better Myself Officer
If these stupid,ignorant women were from America I bet they wouldn't have taken the P out a member of their armed forces and particularly in front of an armed US cop. As guests here they shopuld be ashamed of themselves.I'm glad he told them to leave. Firm and Fair comment
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Their country should mark their passports as showing much disrespect to a host nation as a warning to them and other mickey takers then they would be given special treatment at all passport controls in future
09:17 Fri 15th Mar 2024
Having watched quite a few Youtibe videos of the Horse Guards at Whitehall, i have come to the conclusion that our lads and lasses are nothing more than performing monkeys, there for the amusement of ignorant tourists.
Sure, most tourists are quite respectful but there are always those who believe it is part of their 'holiday package' to insult the guards.
The facility is definitely Horse Guards arch between Horse Guards parade ground and Whitehall. I have ridden through it many time with the Royal Family and visiting foreign dignitaries.We had to ring the guard commander beforehand to tell them what time we would be driving through. That was not well received as the whole guard had to be turned out complete with bugler and probably disturbed their card games before doing stag. The soldier is a member of the Household Calvary.He wears a white plume and is a member of The Horse Guards. The sister regiment are the Blues and Royals. Neither wear bearskins. The Kings Troop Royal artillery wear busbys and sometimes relieve the Household Division when they go on annual camp. Both Regiments have an armoured recconaisance division and were deployed in the Falklands war because the soft boggy terrain could not accomodate heavier battle tanks but,with rubber tracks the lightweight armed scimitars could traversethe terrain. A Lt. Parker (heir to the Parker Pen company) commanded one such light scimitar when it went over an Argentinian mine. His men joked later that he popped out the cuppola like a champagne cork when it exploded but was remarkably unscathed. They also served with distinction in Afghanistan and are not an object of ridicule.They provide a very useful protection role in state visits etc particularly in carriage processions. They practice a very clever defence tactic. The Police Officer would have been Met.
They are dressed like that because it is their traditional ceremonial dress uniform and has been worn like that for hundreds of years. If they just wore camoflage fatigues and carried a Carbine instead of a Sabre it would not have the same attraction to draw in tourists and spend money in this country and that is why the changing of the guard ceremony is so popular with tourists.
