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Found these pictures of the Prinsjesdag parade on a Dutch Army thread on militaryphotos.net and just wanted to share the here:

What weapons are on the last picture? With the wooden stocks

That would be the old FN FAL, its the weapon we used before we got the Diemaco.

Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.
There is always something orange on the uniform.
It's weird to see that some hats and even uniforms are similar to British ones, specially hats made of bear skin.

I think we use those as long as the British do tho,next to that we do share history together

[quote=""'[R-COM"]162eRI;1139585']Beautiful uniforms! You are lucky, you keep you traditions when our army lost it![/quote]
[quote="Hauteclocque""]Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.
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so how your parades look like( what you dont like in them?)

[R-COM]162eRI wrote: But put Diemaco with this uniforms, it's ugly!!! You don't have old rifles?

100% agree on this, our guard of honour and for parades use SKS for example

great pix nonetheless, armies which breed through centuries with old traditions nearly always look good

Hauteclocque wrote:Waow nice pics !
It's great to see foreign parades, our doesn't look like this at all.
There is always something orange on the uniform.
It's weird to see that some hats and even uniforms are similar to British ones, specially hats made of bear skin.

The orange is because its our national colour, its also part of the name of our royal family

William the Silent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

House of Orange-Nassau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the weapons, these men are royal guards, same like those in the UK carry a SA80 instead of a musket, they are not re-enacting but on active guard duty, therefore carry a Diemaco C7

Oh yes, I do know for the orange colour, I just noticed it (I watch too much football to forget that... , well last time Oranjes played against us, it was not a good day...:roll

Actually it is quite possible my dad is on the 2nd or 4th Picture, as he's from the Korps Nationale Reserve SW Brabant..

[R-COM]162eRI wrote:They are on active duty but doing a parade. I don't think they need Diemaco C7 to shoot at the people!!! And they are not doing reenactment but what kind of uniformes are they wearing? It's for the "show" and nice rifle are part of this!

You never know if a Black Suzuki Swift pulls up...

KingLorre wrote:I think we use those as long as the British do tho,next to that we do share history together

Doesn't whole Europe share a history, we've been in war with eachother since... well let's say we've been archiving our wars with eachother since the Roman times

Glim your pictures refuse to show up

Too bad I didn't see myself in the pictures. I'm still having a hard time finding photographs of myself. Anyways I do agree with the fact that Diemaco rifles look a bit awkward with these uniforms. The FN FAL indeed looks better but is so damn heavy, imagine standing in line while presenting arms for about 20 minutes...

Brrrr.!

I vote for No 4. Enfields or M1 Garands as parade rifles

Well, i stood there holding a FAL for several hours a few years ago, believe me you're better off with a diemaco. Btw the year before that, my group were issued lee enfields, also way to heavy. One girl fainted....

I served back in '92 and the standard weapon FN Fal was about 6kg, it was not bad to carry at all, the mag however with 10kg was another ballgame, especially with the speedmars

Nice pics!

Police that moustache soldier!

who's the girl in the second pic?