Thanks, Eya.
Interesting to see high ranking officers salute a relatively junior officer as a captain is first. But Mary is after all
the Crown Princess, and outranks everybody else present, except QMII.
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A BB article where Mary is presented her captains distinctions:
https://www.billedbladet.dk/kongelige/danmark/stolt-dronning-kronprinsesse-mary-udnaevnt-til-kaptajn
The presenter was the head of the Home Guard, major general Garly.
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The Home Guard has completed its transition from a kind of armed citizens militia for territorial defense, under the overall command of the Defense Command, to what is best described as an active reserve like the British Territorials. Divided into an active component, who are well trained and relatively well equipped.
And a reserve component, that consists of members who for various reasons cannot be active and attend exercises on a regular basis, nor are they able to be deployed right away for various duties. But they try and attend what they can.
At the height of its size around 1990 the Home Guard constituted about 1.5 % of the entire population. But now older and inactive members have been weeded out. The Home Guard is now 45.000 strong.
The roles of the Home Guard have also changed. Usually the Home Guard would only be deployed in war times and during national emergencies. Or locally to take part in searches for missing persons. Or in the case with the Police Home Guard direct traffic and guard crime scene. As well as of course being sparring partners for regular military units.
Today the Home Guard acts as a direct support to the regular military, both at home and on international missions - having also suffered casualties in that respect.
The Navy Home Guard patrol Danish territorial waters, freeing the navy to conduct operations in the North Atlantic or take part in international missions.
The Air Home Guard, also patrol the Danish territory using the light planes they have been issued, freeing the air force to be deployed abroad and to conduct stand-off alerts from these days Russian planes.
The largest component, which Mary belongs to, the Army Home Guard, will no directly support the army, both in front and behind the lines. As well as freeing regular soldiers from guarding key installation. Or when deployed abroad providing base security.
One unit is earmarked to be in direct support of the special forces, performing secondary special forces operations behind enemy lines should DK be invaded or be at war or involved in a semi-war in the Baltic. (That is the most likely scenario regarding a conventional war in Europe, in regards to where Danish military will be operating.)