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what is a greenjacket
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I can answer that one!!
Greenjacket is the term for the regular infantry. They wore green coats, hence the name (see the Sharp's series to see the origins of the Green Jackets). The first ones to wear green were Sharpe's riflemen. The name stuck.
Did I get that mostly right Greenjacket?
Greenjacket is the term for the regular infantry. They wore green coats, hence the name (see the Sharp's series to see the origins of the Green Jackets). The first ones to wear green were Sharpe's riflemen. The name stuck.
Did I get that mostly right Greenjacket?
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...I think you may have it pretty close.
On an unrelated topic...I hung a pair of elbow length latex gloves up in my office with a note that says..."Come what may..."
It gets a lot of looks, a few repressed laughs, and every now and then, someone bursts out laughing hysterically....thanks for the laughs bud...lol
See you 'green jackets' in the trees...
Mel
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Loving the new Spydie Military in black Ti
On an unrelated topic...I hung a pair of elbow length latex gloves up in my office with a note that says..."Come what may..."
It gets a lot of looks, a few repressed laughs, and every now and then, someone bursts out laughing hysterically....thanks for the laughs bud...lol
See you 'green jackets' in the trees...
Mel
--knife content--
Loving the new Spydie Military in black Ti
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The Royal Green Jackets were formed in 1966 as a single Large Regiment from a group of single-battalion regiments grouped together: The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (43rd & 52nd), The Kings Royal Rifle Corps and The Rifle Brigade. Two years ago there were five Battalions: three Regular, two TA. Now this has been further reduced. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Colonel in Chief. The British Army is very small, 108,000 strong, and tasked all around the world. Green Jackets, are called Riflemen (rather than private, trooper etc) and can be found doing virtually anything where ever the British Army might be deployed. The Rifleman green uniform was taken up by the Gurkhas, so the look is very similar, they also share Bugles and a 140 paces to the minute.
Here are a few extracts that should make you smile:
On 8th jULY 1755 a column of British redcoats under General Braddock, advancing to take Fort Duquesne on the Ohio River was ambushed by the French and their Red Indian allies firing from concealed positions. The dying general's last words, "we shall learn better how to do it next time", sum up the reaction at home to this defeat, for within a few months a special Act of Paliament had provided for the raising of the 60th Royal American Regiment of four battalions of American colonists. Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions was a Hernri Bouguet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management (including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and battle-dress) were to become universal in the Army only after another 150 years.
By the end of the eighteen centry several European armies included light infantry specialised in the roles of skirmishing and reconnaissance and the British followed the formation of the 5th Battalion of the 60th Royal Americans with the creation in 1800 of an Experimental Corps of Riflemen, its members hand-picked from other regiments, dressed in green and armed with the Baker rifle.
Decipline: The officers of the British Army of the eighteen centry have been described as mainly imcompetent and habiltually drunk; the soldiers as largely drawn from the criminal class. It was this unpromising material which a succession of forward-thinking officers, many of them associated with former Green Jacket Regiments and culminating in Sir John Moore, set to work to turn into a dedicated and efficient fighting force by a system of discipline based on thorough training and encouragement, rather than the threat of the lash. Much of the Army was slow to follow, but the principles of mutual trust and respect remain the foundation of Green Jacket discipline today.
I could go on as the regiments that make up RGJ are colourful to say the least, but I think the 55, (last counted), Victoria Crosses shows that the Riflemen have been rather busy at getting "stuck in" over the years.
I'm Swiss, am a Rifleman, was with the 4th Battalion for 12 year, and never did anything remotely dangerous. When I first hit Blade Forums, I was lost for a name; I wish now I had just typed Rifleman Snotgrass
But then again I can't think of too many Riflemen that are quite as sad, into knives as I am.
Here are a few extracts that should make you smile:
On 8th jULY 1755 a column of British redcoats under General Braddock, advancing to take Fort Duquesne on the Ohio River was ambushed by the French and their Red Indian allies firing from concealed positions. The dying general's last words, "we shall learn better how to do it next time", sum up the reaction at home to this defeat, for within a few months a special Act of Paliament had provided for the raising of the 60th Royal American Regiment of four battalions of American colonists. Among the distinguished foreign officers given commissions was a Hernri Bouguet, a Swiss citizen, whose ideas on tactics, training and man-management (including the unofficial introduction of the rifle and battle-dress) were to become universal in the Army only after another 150 years.
By the end of the eighteen centry several European armies included light infantry specialised in the roles of skirmishing and reconnaissance and the British followed the formation of the 5th Battalion of the 60th Royal Americans with the creation in 1800 of an Experimental Corps of Riflemen, its members hand-picked from other regiments, dressed in green and armed with the Baker rifle.
Decipline: The officers of the British Army of the eighteen centry have been described as mainly imcompetent and habiltually drunk; the soldiers as largely drawn from the criminal class. It was this unpromising material which a succession of forward-thinking officers, many of them associated with former Green Jacket Regiments and culminating in Sir John Moore, set to work to turn into a dedicated and efficient fighting force by a system of discipline based on thorough training and encouragement, rather than the threat of the lash. Much of the Army was slow to follow, but the principles of mutual trust and respect remain the foundation of Green Jacket discipline today.
I could go on as the regiments that make up RGJ are colourful to say the least, but I think the 55, (last counted), Victoria Crosses shows that the Riflemen have been rather busy at getting "stuck in" over the years.
I'm Swiss, am a Rifleman, was with the 4th Battalion for 12 year, and never did anything remotely dangerous. When I first hit Blade Forums, I was lost for a name; I wish now I had just typed Rifleman Snotgrass
But then again I can't think of too many Riflemen that are quite as sad, into knives as I am.