Any military types out there…
All this year we’ve seen plenty of pageantry on the TV, what with the jubilee, the royal wedding, the thingy, and the other one, and then the Olympics etc… we’re all used to seeing the guards parading up and down outside Buck house and Windsor castle dressed in magnificent displays of historical army uniforms. The commentary at such events take great pains to tell the onlookers that this regiment was founded on such and such a date and differs from another regiment because the tunic buttons are grouped in threes, or two’s… it’s all very interesting… but it never ceases to amaze me that they all parade with the latest issue modern assault rifle… surely, to be authentic an old Brown Bess or some other piece of historical weaponry would be more appropriate for authenticity. Why do they do that.?