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Did You Know The President’s Bodyguard Recruits Troopers From Only 3 Communities? Here’s Why | Viral News

Did You Know The President’s Bodyguard Recruits Troopers From Only 3 Communities? Here’s Why | Viral News

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Last Updated:February 28, 2026, 09:22 IST President’s Bodyguard (PBG) is responsible for protecting and ceremonially escorting the President of India. PBG is the most senior regiment of the Indian Army. You must have seen those tall and perfect-physique horsemen in uniforms that escort the President during ceremonial displays. They are the most senior regiment of the Indian Army known as President’s Bodyguard (PBG). This unit is responsible for protecting and ceremonially escorting the President of India. But beyond the impressive uniforms and horses, PBG has a long history, strict recruitment rules and even legal debates surrounding it. PBG: Senior-Most Regiment In A Modern Army Today, the Indian Army mostly follows what is known as the “All India, All Class” recruitment system. This means soldiers can be recruited from any community or region of the country. But the President’s Bodyguard follows a different model where troopers (soldiers/sepoys) are recruited only from three specific communities: Hindu Jats, Hindu Rajputs and Jat Sikhs. The regiment maintains an equal balance among these three groups: 33.3 per cent Hindu Jats, …

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is planning a new Starship Troopers movie

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is planning a new Starship Troopers movie

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Columbia Pictures has tapped District 9 director Neill Blomkamp to write and direct a new Starship Troopers film, according to The Hollywood Reporter, giving the franchise its first live-action entry since 2008’s Starship Troopers 3: Marauder. The movie will be based on Robert A. Heinlein’s 1959 book of the same name, not a remake of or sequel to 1997’s Paul Verhoeven-directed Starship Troopers, say the outlet’s unnamed sources. In that movie, characters played by Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris, and Michael Ironside are part of a comically jingoist militaristic society at war with space bugs. Blomkamp’s wife, Terri Tatchell, will reportedly co-produce the new Troopers movie. The outlet does not say when it’s expected to debut. Heinlein’s book has been criticized for celebrating military fascism — criticism that extended to Verhoeven’s movie when it was released, as The Hollywood Reporter notes. These days, it’s generally accepted that his movie was meant as a send-up of the book. In a Kennedy Center interview, Verhoeven said he’d hoped to show those who applaud the …

Palmer Luckey aims to turn US soldiers into Starship Troopers

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Anduril Industries, the military tech company started by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, is teaming up with Microsoft to improve the mixed-reality headsets used by the United States Army. The project announced by Anduril will embed the company’s Lattice software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), allowing the HoloLens-based goggles to update soldiers with live information pulled from drones, ground vehicles, and aerial defense systems. The Lattice integration with IVAS could alert wearers to incoming threats picked up by an air defense system, for example, even when outside of visual range. “The idea is to enhance soldiers,” Luckey said in an interview with Wired, “Their visual perception, audible perception — basically to give them all the vision that Superman has, and then some, and make them more lethal.”  Luckey likened the IVAS project to the infantry headsets that featured in Robert Heinlein’s 1950s Starship Troopers novel, telling Wired that the headset is “already coming together exactly the way that the sci-fi authors thought that it would.” The initial IVAS headset developed by Microsoft in …