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From: bsh031@cck.cov.ac.uk (Coyote)
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Subject: Re: Special troops and their purposes
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Date: 8 May 91 13:39:19 GMT
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From: bsh031@cck.cov.ac.uk (Coyote)


a481@mindlink.bc.ca (J.D. Frazer) writes:
>2) The British Guards (the fellows who wear the huge furry hats and stand guard
>at Buckingham Palace) are, I presume, an elite outfit. What is their basic
>role, and have they ever seen any action?

I think the British Guards are not a regiment as such. Different regiments
of the Armed Forces (mainly Army) supply selected soldiers to carry out this 
duty. This is how soldiers of the Royal Air Force Regiment also carried out
this task. The Royal Navy (ie.Royal Marines), are the only Force not to
carried this out.
Because the the Soldiers are from active regiments, I therefore assume that
they have seen action at one time or another.

I may stand corrected on this, but I think it is right.  

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