Bermuda Regiment Embodiments
An embodiment of the Regiment happens whenever the Regiment is called up for fulltime, but temporary, service. A planned event such as the annual Recruit Camp is a training event, but a sudden or previously unplanned call-up, such as for November 2009′s Royal Visit or for the General Strike of 1981 would be an embodiment. For the duration of an embodiment the part-time members of the Regiment convert into full-time soldiers. The longest embodiment was in 1968, and the shortest was the 1970 Royal Visit.
As of 2010, the Bermuda Regiment has been embodied on the following occasions:
- 1968 Riots and State of Emergency
- 1970 Riots and State of Emergency
- 1972 Assassination of Police Commissioner
- 1973 Assassination of Governor Richard Sharples and his ADC
- 1977 Riots and State of Emergency
- 1981 General Strike
- 1987 Hurricane Emily
- 1990’s When President Bush and Prime Ministers Thatcher and Major met in Bermuda
- 1996 Chinese boat Xing Da with 100 illegal immigrants entered Bermuda waters
- 2001 September 11th Terror Attacks
- 2003 Hurricane Fabian
- 2009 Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth
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