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For one young Old Guard, there's no `greater honor than laying a soldier to rest'.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
WASHINGTON _ Some call them toy soldiers, the pretty boys of the Army. But to Spc. Joshua Grzywa, being a member of the Old Guard is an honor.
The Old Guard includes the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns, the Army Drill Team, the Salute Guns Platoon, and other groups that perform military ceremonies.
Grzywa (pronounced GREE-va), 21, is a member of the Salute Guns Platoon. They fire cannons, 3-inch tank guns from World War II mounted on an M5 chassis with a 75mm insert. The platoon fires salutes for military funerals, dignitary arrivals and departures, and special ceremonies such as the presidential inauguration.
Every Fourth of July, the Salute Guns Platoon carries out two missions. The first is a 50-gun salute to the nation. The second is the volleys fired during the performance of the "1812 Overture" on the National Mall.
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...the Pentagon and other locations in the nation's capital. As the only indirect-fire infantrymen in the regiment, the Guns Platoon is equipped with eight 3-inch, World War II-era anti-tank guns mounted on a 105mm howitzer chassis. Each gun weighs...
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