The Danish Guard Hussars Regiment.


Cap Badge of the Guard Hussars Regiment.
The badge can be either in gold and silver or just silver. The silver badge is special, only the horse squadron use this bagde.
The motto of the regiment is in Latin: In actis esto volucris, which translates to Be swift in action.



The Guard Hussars Regiment (Danish: Gardehusarregimentet), abbreviated GHR, is a cavalry unit in the Danish Army, The primary task is Armoured Infantry, Reconnaissance and mounted escorts at the service of the regent and as a mounted escort perform the same role as the Household Cavalry do in the British Army.

The Regiment dates from 1762 and this makes the Guard Hussars one the the oldest regiment of hussars in the world still operational. The Regiment was reformed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the original Guard Hussars with two infantry regiments: The Zealand Life Regiment & The Danish Life Regiment. The Regiment is in NATO classed as a cavalry regiment, it is in fact a mixed armoured and infantry unit, with five battalions:

I Battalion (Armoured Infantry)
II Battalion (Armoured Infantry & Trening)
III Battalion (Reconnaissance)
IV Battalion (Basic Trening – profesionel soldiers)
V Battalion (Basic Trening – conskripst)
The Horse Squadron

The Horse Squadron of the Regiment is a special unit whose primary mission it is to provide mounted escorts to the service of Her Majesty the Queen. The Squadron's history, traditions and uniforms can be traced in a direct line to Husarregimentet founded by King Frederik V, 10th February 1762 in order to have a light and mobile cavalry against the Cossacks in an impending war against Russia.



Difference in uniform - officer and enlisted.

Hussar: (from Hungarian - huszár or from Serbo-Croatian - Hussar, gusar, kursar) The word originally means highwayman and comes from the Latin 'cursarius' meaning pirate. Used as a name of a soldier on horseback in 1400-century, Hungary, where every 20 household had to equip and provide a hussar. (Hungarian meaning: The twentieth; every twentieth man had to do military service)



The Regiment is associated with many rituals where beautiful women often were included, perhaps it is still the case - who knows ..?



The regiment is very popular among women and there is a high number of them in the Horse Squadron.



There are also several women in our combat units. They are doing really well. They are as tough as the guys.

lol women in combat XD

Originally Posted by greenlantern11b

lol women in combat XD

A bullet fired by a female soldier will kill you just as quickly as one fired by a male soldier.

Danish women have been in combat units since 1988. There are plenty of Danish women who have been deployed around the world.
So we actually have a lot of experience.

Is it because it offends your manhood that there are women with balls just as big as yours!

Originally Posted by GHR

A bullet fired by a female soldier will kill you just as quickly as one fired by a male soldier.

Danish women have been in combat units since 1988. There are plenty of Danish women who have been deployed around the world.
So we actually have a lot of experience.

Is it because it offends your manhood that there are women with balls just as big as yours!

No disputing your first statement, assuming the woman in question can bring effective fire to bear.

And I don't dispute that you've had women in combat units since 1988.

But please enlighten me, what combat have Danish units been in since 1988, and were women engaged in that actual combat.

Ceremonial units are great to have, and knowing how much girls love horses, I can see why they'd be drawn to that ceremonial unit. (Most of the members my local law enforcement mounted ceremonial unit are women). But as they say, "no parade-ready unit was ever much good in combat, and no combat-ready unit was ever much good on parade".

Just look at the Welsh Guards in 1982 arriving at the Falkland Islands.

Originally Posted by Spartan613

But please enlighten me, what combat have Danish units been in since 1988, and were women engaged in that actual combat.

The Balkans from 1992
Afghanistan from 2002
Iraq from 2003 to 2007
And yes, there were women who saw combat in infantry units in all three missions.

Originally Posted by Spartan613

Ceremonial units are great to have, and knowing how much girls love horses, I can see why they'd be drawn to that ceremonial unit. (Most of the members my local law enforcement mounted ceremonial unit are women). But as they say, "no parade-ready unit was ever much good in combat, and no combat-ready unit was ever much good on parade".

The Horse Squadron of the Regiment is a special unit primarily manned by conscripts (Danish women can volunteer to be conscripts on equal footing with men)

The regiment is not a ceremonial unit. It’s an armored infantry Regiment. The Regiment is also enrolled in The NATO Response Force.
III (recce) battalion, where I am serving, is the largest reconnaissance unit in the Danish Army and we are able to perform recce at all levels.

I had a woman in my squad the last time I was in Afghanistan and I can guarantee that had she not lived up to the standard then she would never be in our squad.

My Regiment also has a Cerimonial Troop, (look them up at Strathconas.ca). We have also had a minimum of 1 Troop in Afghanistan since 2006. Admittedly the men that are in the Cerimonial Troop tend to stay there for a while, but half my Troop in Afghanistan in 2007 had been in the Cerimonial Troop at one time. And I would not have traded my driver for any other on that tour. A good man, good at his job as a tank driver and could ride a horse when back in Canada.

As far as women in combat goes, there are few woman that can do a tankers job when it comes to heavy maintenance. But the ones that can (and I have seen a few) have a way of getting more out off the weaker guys (and I have seen a few of them!) No one wants to be shown up by a girl. As far as when the bullets are flying, their guns ring out just like the guys, what else do you want?

Originally Posted by GHR

A bullet fired by a female soldier will kill you just as quickly as one fired by a male soldier.

Danish women have been in combat units since 1988. There are plenty of Danish women who have been deployed around the world.
So we actually have a lot of experience.

Is it because it offends your manhood that there are women with balls just as big as yours!

Breathe, Preben, breathe!
The Amerikaner are not used to be faced by active competition from the so called weak gender you know.

I nearly fell victim to the internet-duck about female Danish tankers in combat, but luckily I checked it before typing here.
But still I enjoy this understatement:
"- Der var nogle af vores egne folk, der var i fare for at blive slået ihjel. Så var vi nødt til at køre derud og tale hårdt til de andre. Det var det, vi gjorde under operation Bøllebank,"

As for you guys who find the idea about female troops far fetched, just try to imagine your mother-in-law with a gun....

Well 84RFK
We must forgive his ignorance since he has never experienced it.