Drill team
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A Drill Team is a unit of the military that the drill with the weapon in combination with formal transaction types (eg. As lockstep or goose step ) showing off in public. In addition to traditional forms of exercise that have or had a real meaning in everyday military service, drill teams also master special, militarily meaningless weapon grips that are supposed to convey a pure show effect (e.g. juggling with a rifle). Almost all armies around the world maintain a drill team, especially for representation at military music festivals or other public events .
A distinction is to be made between the pure drill forms and the weapon drill , in which the application-related handling of the weapons is practiced.
Drill teams often appear together with music corps , which provide musical accompaniment to the course of the performance. Typically, a drill team comes into groups - or tensile strength , since the complicated processes of the demonstrations, which in a real choreography are fixed, usually do not allow larger formations.
As a standard, a drill team comes under the command of a non-commissioned officer with portepee , the soldiers carry rifles (possibly with attached bayonets ), the commanding officer, depending on the military tradition of the country concerned, pistols , rapiers or no weapon.
Drill teams should not be confused with units that are responsible for carrying out the protocol-based honorary service (e.g. greeting state guests ). Although drill teams are often an organizational component of such units (e.g. the German drill team belongs to the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense ), they are not part of the protocol processes.