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Apr 12, 2023

The secret to Napoleon’s ‘Old Guard’ was that they were actually really old

They were the most celebrated and most feared military unit of their day, with distinctive bearskin hats, they were elite and easily recognizable: Napoleon’s vaunted Old Guard. Napoleon called them…

BYTeam Mighty

Apr 12, 2023

BYBlake Stilwell

Oct 16, 2022

These pistols are carried by NCOs at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Many military members are familiar with the sight of a shift change at Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Only the U.S. Army’s finest can join the Old Guard and walk the carpet as a tomb sentinel, so the highlight of any vi…

BYBlake Stilwell

Oct 16, 2022

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

100 year old sentinel returns to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

At 100, Jack Eaton is the oldest living, oldest known sentinel of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His and other sentinels’ names are there on plaques, commemorating their service. Sentinels, all volunteers, are members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Reg…

BYUnited States Army

Apr 29, 2020

BYUnited States Army

Jan 28, 2019

Old Guard marks 70 years of ‘Flags In’ to honor Memorial Day

Almost seven years ago, Spc. Dakota Williams lost more than his stepbrother. He lost his hero. His stepbrother, Spc. Dylan Johnson, had been deployed in Iraq’s Diyala Province just north of Baghdad for less than a month when a bomb deton…

BYUnited States Army

Jan 28, 2019

BYLogan Nye

Jun 25, 2018

WATCH: These are the Marines who guard the president

Some Marine jobs are elite because you’re dropped into the middle of the suck and expected to kill dozens of enemies before whittling new weapons from said enemies’ bones and using those bone weapons to kill yet more enemies. But some…

BYLogan Nye

Jun 25, 2018