In 1871 Saigō was at last persuaded to join the government and was given command of the newly created Imperial Guard, consisting of some 10,000 troops.
The Republic of Cyprus has a small national guard consisting of volunteers and conscripts, and men between the ages of 18 and 50 are required to serve up to 26 months in the military.
At Lodi, he led a rear guard consisting of two battalions of the Carlstädter Grenz Infantry Regiment.
The Guard consisted of Baath Party loyalists; the Iraqi military was a professional force that had always tried to keep its distance from the Hussein regime.
Rochester's castle-guard consisted of 60 knights' fees, marking it as a particularly important fortification.
Vlad's personal guard consisted of mercenaries from many countries and some Gypsies.
In the early centuries, the imperial guard consisted of the units of the Excubitores and Scholae Palatinae, which by the late 7th century had declined to parade-ground troops.
The Saudi guard consists of all the various Bedouin tribes and other deep desert dwellers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and they act as a sort of insurance policy against unrest and insurrection — an always-on-call counterinsurgency force.
According to Boteler, the main guard consisted of "about twenty Muscat soldiers, lounging on the stone benches on either side, with eye intent on vacancy, and armed with their shields, swords and pikes.
Always wear your safety gear, consisting of helmet, wrist guards, elbow and knee pads, while riding a balance board.
