The Air Force Base Honor Guard Badge

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The Base Honor Guard (BHG) Badge, known as the “Cookie” is a device that only Active Duty, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard Airmen wear when they are assigned to a BHG. Not even retirees can wear it unless they are actively working with a BHG. I went through two weeks of honor guard training many years ago (1990) …

What Base Honor Guard Members Need to Know: Uniform Trousers

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The Air Force Base Honor Guard (BHG) uniform is a modified standard USAF uniform. Stripes, an aiguillette, BHG arc and sewn creases are added like in the picture at right (that’s me, second from the left). You may notice that the right rifle guard’s stripe on his trouser leg is slightly bunched. This is a rampant problem with BHGs around …

How not to Stand Around while on a Color Team

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This is a Base Honor Guard ready to present the colors at a game. They are standing and waiting for their time to line up and get ready to go. Nothing wrong with that, except that the colors are out of order which is completely unacceptable. When the colors are uncased, they need to be in the proper order- always. …