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Navy Boy is it an honour guard or a colour guard that you're asking about? As with most things this can be a generic term. Where is your question coming from as in context?
 
bulldogg said:
Navy Boy is it an honour guard or a colour guard that you're asking about? As with most things this can be a generic term. Where is your question coming from as in context?
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Im asking about the honour guard not the colour guard.
 
Well without a context all I can tell you is the only honour guard I can remember hearing about is the one at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington. Maybe someone else can help more.
 
An honor guard can be a select team from a police department, fire department, any armed service, even the border patrol or INS has a team. They are sometimes called color guards as well. A guard can be posted for duties such as standing "guard" for a person in the particular service who is killed in the line of duty until final graveside services. I have even heard of guards being posted for a medal of honor awardee who is in a funeral home for viewing.
 
Generally speaking, Honor Guards have been established to honor the service, and the members who have given their lives in service to their country or profession and their families. Their purpose is to see that the highest honor is paid to their fallen brothers and sisters as well as their individual families and their families.

Following the surrender of Germany, the 82nd Airborne was ordered to Berlin for occupation duty. In Berlin General George Patton was so impressed with the 82nd's honor guard he said, "In all my years in the Army and all the honor guards I have ever seen, the 82nd's honor guard is undoubtedly the best." Hence the "All-Americans" became known as "America's Guard of Honor."
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source: http://www.bragg.army.mil/www-82DV/History.htm

Also the Society of the Honor Guard Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has a website: http://www.tombguard.org/

You can learn about the US Air Force Honor Guard here: http://www.bolling.af.mil/orgs/OG/HG/Index_HG.htm

There is also a website for Honor Guards with an extensive listing of Military, Veteran, Law Enforcement and Academy Honor Guard units here: http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib6q.htm
 
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