Saturday, November 24, 2007

Interview

Interview : Commander Warodom Jiankul
Role : Battalion Commander

A: What did you feel when the Naval Cadet Regiment picked you as the Battalion Commander this year?
B: I’m so proud that the Regiment picked me to be the Battalion Commander, because once I was a cadet, nowadays I’m the Battalion Commander of the Naval Cadet Regiment. And we parade in front of His Majesty the King.

A: What is your plan for practicing your battalion?
B: Practice must go slow. Each week we have a different plan. There aren’t many weak points in the parade. We have to practice those points intensively such as the movement of our hands.

A: This year, will there be any special events in the ceremony?
B: This year is 80th birthday celebration of the King [in 2007]. This parade will be held to suit his prestige, so they added some ceremonies for the honor of our King.

A: When they parade, does the battalion have any problems?
B: Nowadays there are not as many cadets as before, so sometimes they will miss practice to do other activities.

A: Then what would you do to fix it?
B: One Naval Cadet can do more than one activity, but the parade must be the main activity. On Sunday at the royal palace every Naval Cadet must leave other activities and go to the practice there.

A: Could you leave a message for the battalion and the people who participate in the battalion?
B: The parade is an activity that every cadet must do. It is the pride of every cadet who participates in the parade. They should pay attention, practice hard, fix the problems of our battalion and it will be the pride of every cadet for eternity.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

We bless to King Rama V before we go to practice at Royal palace.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Gun salute.
Listen Battalion !!!! You must parade like this.
At the assembly point before marching.
Pick up the Colours for the marching.
The Colours guards.
His Majesty the King accepts respect from the King's Guards.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Ceremonial Parade of the Royal Guards

The first Ceremonial Parade of the Royal Guards was held in 1953. This marching was for the King‘s birthday.
This ceremony is held every year by the Army or Ministry of Defense. This ceremony was first held in 1953 when Field Marshal Plak Phiboonsongkram was Prime Minister. It was organized to pay respect to the King and to celebrate the anniversary of the 1st Infantry Regiment, the King’s Bodyguards on 11th November. There, the King gave the new colours to replace the old one. The colours is the flag that represents the King. After that time, this ceremony was held at the Royal Plaza on the 3rd December of every year.
The RTNA has joined the ceremony since 1982.
Now there are 13 battalions in the ceremony and one of them is the naval cadet regiment.

Naval cadet regiment. The King's Guard.

The naval cadets are in the 5th battalion of 13 battalions. This battalion has a squad of bugles, the Colours guards, battalion commanders, and a battalion that consists of 144 people organized in a square. We have joined this parade for a long time and every time we practice so hard. In the morning we run. At noon we practice parade and we practice parade again when we finish class. We do this again and again for about 3 months before we hold a dress rehearsal. We have many instructors. Each instructor will supervise his part. Naval cadets in the battalion are first and second- year cadets. The third- year are the squad bugles and Colours guards. Ensign act as commanders of a platoon, Lieutenants as commanders of a company and a Commander as the commander of battalion. This battalion is separated into two companies; each company has three platoons, each platoon has 24 naval cadets.

We practice every day and on Sunday we go out to practice with other battalions. Our the instructors come from the fourth- year cadets. They have to prepare a lot of things such as equipment, schedule, formation, contact with the transportation, contact with quartermaster (office who prepares supply) about supply, radio communication, they have to recheck whether the battalion is complete, give all information that officers need and prepare to service everything to make sure that they are ready to parade, because every Sunday we have to show our parade to other battalions and people that come to see our practice. We have to do the best every Sunday about five weeks before the day of the parade.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007


Introduce my group STAT
S - Short - Patiwet
T - Tung - Songwut
A - Au - Sukolapark
T - Tee - Sopon

Royal Guard Uniform
Naval Cadet Regiment
Cap - White Service Cap with gold strap.
Coat - Navy-blue, collar embroidered with eight gold
chaiyapreuk leaves, cuffs embroidered with white
badge.

Trousers - Dark-blue flannel with gold stripes.
Insignia - Gold insignia with the Royal Monogram ภปร over right
breast pocket.