page_title: Troupes de marine
section_title: Golden Spurs
hierarchical_section_title: Troupes de marine / Uniform / Golden Spurs
caption_attribution_description: Insignes et galons de caporal puis caporal chef des troupes de marine. (Badges and rank of Corporal and Corporal Chief of Navy troops)
context_page_description: The Troupes de marine is a subdivision of the French Army that includes several specialities: infantry, artillery, armoured, airborne, engineering and transmissions.
  Despite its name, it forms part of the Army, not the Navy. The TDM has gradually become professionalized since 1970.
context_section_description: The officers of marine "mounted" units (that is to say those formerly using horses, or currently armored vehicles) have the privilege of wearing gold spurs for certain occasions. This differs from the usual French cavalry practice of wearing silver spurs. Tradition has it that Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom requested this distinction for the marine troops from Emperor Napoleon III to honor the branch after the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimea (1854) where marine infantry saved British troops from destruction.
caption: Badges and rank of Corporal and Corporal Chief of Marine troops
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