The Household Cavalry Regiment of the British Army has an active operational role in armoured fighting vehicles which has seen them at the forefront of the nation's conflicts. The regiment is not part of the Royal Armoured Corps, but serves alongside the line cavalry regiments as one of the five formation reconnaissance regiments. The regiment is made up of two squadrons each from the Life Guards and the Blues and Royals. One squadron is assigned to the airborne role with 16 Air Assault Brigade. It is based at Combermere Barracks, Windsor, one mile from Windsor Castle. The term Household Cavalry is used across the Commonwealth of Nations to describe the cavalry of the Household Divisions. ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... The Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) is currently a collection of ten regular regiments, mostly converted from old horse cavalry regiments, and four Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army. ... A Squadron is a grouping of aircraft, naval vessels, armoured fighting vehicles or soldiers. ... The Life Guards is the senior regiment of the British Army. ... The Blues and Royals are a British Army armoured regiment and are part of the Household Cavalry. ... The 16 Air Assault Brigade (16 AAB) is a unit of the British Army It was formed as part of the defence reforms implemented by the Strategic Defence Review on 1 September 1999 by the merging of 24th Airmobile Brigade and elements of 5th Airborne Brigade. ... Windsor (IPA: usually , but also ) is a small town in Berkshire on the south-western outskirts of London, south of the River Thames. ... An early 18th century view of Windsor Castle by Kip and Knyff. ...

The men (and now women) of the Household Division sometimes have been required to undertake special tasks as the Sovereign’s personal troops. The Household Cavalry were called to Windsor Castle on 20th November 1992, to assist with salvage operations in the face of the Great Fire. Household Division is term used principally in the Commonwealth of Nations to describe a country’s most elite or historically senior military groupings, or those military groupings that provide functions associated directly with the sovereign. ... The adjective sovereign is used to refer to a state of sovereignty. ...