DRILL TEAMS
From Knob Knowledge
Summerall Guards are seniors. Bond Volunteers are juniors who will become Summerall Guards. The Junior Sword Drill was an entirely separate organization whose sole function was to give a precision drill demonstration at the Ring Hop, the Friday before Parents' Day. It was disbanded in 1992.
In 1932, Lang's Grenadiers (named after the Commandant at that time) was formed as the senior precision drill team of The Citadel. Lang's resignation in 1933 caused the unit's name to be changed to the Bond Volunteers. Later, this became the junior drill team (not to be confused with the Junior Sword Drill, an entirely separate organization) and the senior drill team became known as the Summerall Guards. They were two separate units. When they marched together the combined unit was know as the Richardson Rifles.
In 1943, 1944, and 1945 the Bond Volunteers did not exist. In 1946 they ceased being a separate entity. Instead, they became the Junior aspirants for the Summerall Guards. They no longer gave exhibitions. (HN)
