Norwegian Drill Team

[Bruce59]

Precision Norwegian Drill Team



This is the Norwegian Royal Guard Regiment, equivalent to the British and Canadian Guards regiments.



These guys give the USMC Band and Honor Guard and the Army's 1 BN 3d Infantry, The Old Guard, a run for their money. It is interesting how a cheesy Hollywood theme from ("The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly") can sound impressive when played by an elite military band.



This is "River Dance" with boots and rifles. I can't remember ever seeing a display of precision to beat this.



All the precision drill is being performed on ice.



Those are US made Garand M-1 rifles from WWII and they are heavy weapons, 9 pounds each.



When that one fellow goes on his own, you've never seen a rifle spun that fast!



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[Quinbo]

To me it was somewhat reminiscent of a half time show. The flags on rifles, the kneeling down and them marching in a pinwheel is not very dignified. I do not see the somber ceremony nor the pomp and grandeur of the silent drill team here. I can not envision that group shedding their coats, then fixing bayonets and facing the enemy. It is an apples to oranges comparison. In their own right they did put on a pretty good show and that was some impressive spinning speed with the rifle. I found myself waiting for the trained bear on the unicycle to come out.

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[Marinemom32]

It was pretty impressive, but I have to agree with Quinbo, reminds me of a football half time show when I did flags and rifels, but I could never spin my rifel as fast as he did! That was pretty good!