![]() ![]() “A good Tomb Guard is out there not letting their minds wander. According to him, most senior walkers in the sentinel platoon have between 800 to 1,000 walks. “My rifle angles, counting my twenty-one seconds, how I’m walking, and trying to make sure my walk stays nice and smooth.” Winget who joined the Old Guard in 2020 and began training as a sentinel in January of 2021, has “walked the mat” almost forty times and has conducted approximately 1,100 guard changes. A sentinel’s shift lasts an hour (a half hour in the summer), until he or she is relieved in a changing-of-the-guard ceremony.īut what is a sentinel thinking the entire time they are walking in front of the Tomb? “You’re thinking about so many things about your outside performance,” explained Staff Sgt. The sentinel, or guard, walks twenty-one steps along a rubber mat on the plaza in front of the Unknown from World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, as well as an empty crypt, honoring those lost in Vietnam. They do not smile, do not slouch, and do not flinch. ![]() Infantry Regiment-the “Old Guard”-walks back and forth in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. (Photo Credit: Elizabeth Fraser) VIEW ORIGINALĭay and night, a U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) perform the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., May 10, 2022. ![]()
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