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What (who) is guidon - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Guidon (disambiguation)
Guidon
·vt One who carries a flag.
II. Guidon ·vt One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
III. Guidon ·vt A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.
guidon
['g??d(?)n]
¦ noun a pennant that narrows to a point or fork, especially one used as the standard of a light cavalry regiment.
Origin
C16: from Fr., from Ital. guidone, from guida 'a guide'.
Guidon (United States)
![1st Battalion, 3rd Marines]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guidon of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment.jpg?width=200 "1st Battalion, 3rd Marines]]")
![Guidon of the 56th Civil Engineering Squadron of the [[56th Fighter Wing]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/USAF - Guidon.png?width=200 "Guidon of the 56th Civil Engineering Squadron of the [[56th Fighter Wing]]")
GUIDON IS A MILITARY STANDARD THAT COMPANY/BATTERY/TROOP OR PLATOON-SIZED DETACHMENTS CARRY TO SIGNIFY THEIR UNIT DESIGNATION AND BRANCH/CORPS AFFILIATION OR THE TITLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO CARRIES
Guidon (US Army); Guidon (U.S. Army)
In the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, a guidon is a military standard or flag that company/battery/troop or platoon-sized detachments carry to signify their unit designation and branch/corps affiliation or the title of the individual who carries it. A basic guidon can be rectangular, but sometimes has a triangular portion removed from the fly (known as "swallow-tailed").
Wikipedia
Guidon
Guidon may refer to:
- Flags
- Guidon (heraldic flag), a type of heraldic flag
- Guidon (Commonwealth), a swallow tailed flag for the colours of a light cavalry regiment
- Guidon (Portugal), a guião (small square guidon) is carried by each unit of battalion size
- Guidon (United States), a military standard
- Other
- Guidon (rank), a military rank equivalent to ensign
- Guidon Club, an anti-woman's suffrage club founded by Helen Kendrick Johnson
Examples of use of guidon
1. They gave him the guidon as a sign of their confidence in him.
2. The guidon was solemnly carried forward, for the first time by someone else.
3. Chavis the proud emblem of their squadron –– a blue–and–yellow flag known as a guidon –– because they knew he would rather die than lose it.
4. But by the winking, distant lights of the capital, it was possible to make out the unit‘s guidon, fluttering gently in the night sky.