Changing of the Guard in Denmark

[@denmark39]

The kid is right 😂

[@janandersen8735]

Too cold for the brass to play

[@andreasask6791]

You can’t even see the breath, so it doesn’t look too cold.

[@janandersen8735]

@@andreasask6791 Part of the training is learning how to hold our breath for extended periods of times to avoid giving away our positions in the field in the winter. Just kidding. Or am I?

[@andreasask6791]

Excellent point. But this kind of discipline is rarely found at audience.

[@LukeWatson99]

Buckingham palace is better in my opinion.

[@janandersen8735]

Certainly different. There is more pomp and circumstance with the Brits for sure, while the Danes are sticking to a very functional changing of the guards, they arrive in column, transition to a company front, (basically a battlefield maneuver both Alexander the Great and Wellington would have used) receive the colors, line up in front of the departing contingent, and go though with the exchange at the guard posts. The fundamental difference is that the Danes serve an actual protective function, unlike the Brits who keep ammo in the guard shack, the rifles are locked and loaded, there are more mags in the black leather pouch on the right hip and several have radios on them. You also don't see the ones in BDU's in the gardens surrounding the various palaces. You also get to be up close here while you are kept outside the gates at Buckingham palace. So different yes, but when it comes to the actual job of protection, hands down the Danes. BTW, as a Royal regiment they are 2 years older than the Grenadier Guards and added the bearskin 10 years earlier.

[@LukeWatson99]

@@janandersen8735 They should shout more. then they'd be more entertaining.

[@janandersen8735]

@@LukeWatson99 They are not there to be entertaining, they are there to serve a function.

[@thedanishcat7946]

@@janandersen8735 Kunne ikke være mere enig, der er der for at passe på kongehusets og dets palæger og slotte. Jo de set godt ud og går meget op i det, men når at kommer til alt er de toptrænet soldater som til en hver tid står klar til at beskytte kongefamilien.