A unique job calls for special soldiers: young men who can adapt themselves to the added responsibility and variety that a career in the Household Cavalry offers. Very often the men that you see finding the Queen's Life Guard in Whitehall in gleaming State ceremonial uniforms (known as Mounted Review Order) were only recently operating armoured vehicles or parachuting in their airborne role.

As equipment and weapons become more sophisticated, so the demand for quick wits, initiative and self-reliance in a soldier is greater than ever before. Should you accept the challenge, you will acquire not only new skills and greater confidence but you will also have those special qualities for which the Household Cavalry is famous: self-discipline, attention to detail and willingness to make that little extra effort; and these qualities will stand you in good stead for life.

Uniquely in the British Army, the Household Cavalry use their qualities to excellent effect by combining their role in armoured fighting vehicles with the mounted State ceremonial role. Whether on horseback in London or Edinburgh, or in armoured fighting vehicles in support of the United Nations or NATO in places such as the Gulf, Bosnia, Kosovo or Macedonia, you can expect to see the Household Cavalry at the forefront of the British Army.
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