Governor General's Foot Guards

Governor General's Foot Guards
Governor General's Foot Guards
	Badge of the regiment
Active	1872–present
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Army
Type	Foot guards
Role	Light infantry
Size	Battalion
Part of	33 Canadian Brigade Group
Garrison/HQ	Cartier Square Drill Hall, Ottawa, Ontario
Nickname(s)	"The Guards"; "GGFGs"; "The Sharpshooters" (historic); "Gustav's Gone For Good";
Motto(s)	Civitas et princeps cura nostra (Latin for 'Our country and ruler are our concern'); Up the Guards! (unofficial);
March	Quick: "Milanollo"; Slow: "Figaro" ("Non più andrai" from The Marriage of Figaro);
Anniversaries	Battle of Cut Knife Hill - May 2, 1885 (first casualties); Regimental birthday - June 7, 1872;
Engagements	North-West Rebellion; Second Boer War; First World War; Second World War; War in Afghanistan;
Battle honours	See list of battle honours
Website	www.canada.ca/en/army/corporate/4-canadian-division/governor-generals-foot-guards.html
Commanders
Current; commander	LCol Jamie Bell
Colonel of; the Regiment	Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada
Regimental sergeant major	CWO Greg L. Witol
Insignia
Headdress	Khaki beret

The Governor General's Foot Guards (GGFG) is the senior reserve infantry regiment in the Canadian Army. Located in Ottawa at the Cartier Square Drill Hall, the regiment is a Primary Reserve infantry unit, and the members are part-time soldiers.

The GGFG are infantry reserve soldiers who train part-time and full-time for domestic operations and international missions. This involves training for domestic operations where the unit deployed members to help during a natural disaster or public emergency such as it did during the 1998 Ice Storm, flooding in 2017 and 2019, and during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. It also involves training for international operations and support to the Regular Force on operations in countries such as Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Latvia, and Ukraine where troops from the regiment have deployed in recent years.

Members of the GGFG train part time between September and June, usually Tuesday evenings and one weekend a month. Between May and August, members can be employed full time in a variety of roles such as students or instructors on training courses, taking part in tasks such as the Ceremonial Guard, and attending field exercises.

The regiment also runs supplementary training programs such as the marksmanship program to improve shooting skills, and the leadership development training program to prepare soldiers to attend leadership courses. Additionally the regiment runs sports and fitness programs. The GGFG are also affiliated with 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (1 RCR) for reserve integration training.

The GGFG perpetuate the 2nd Canadian Battalion (Eastern Ontario Regiment), CEF, and 77th Battalion (Ottawa), CEF, from the First World War.^[2]

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^ Department of National Defence. Insignia and Lineages of the Canadian Forces. Vol. 3: Combat Arms Regiments. Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. Canadian Forces Publication A-DH-267-003.

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[DND-2] Department of National Defence. Insignia and Lineages of the Canadian Forces. Vol. 3: Combat Arms Regiments. Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada. Canadian Forces Publication A-DH-267-003.

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