I see where you get tactical now....ROFLAMO...

I see where you get tactical now....ROFLAMO...

Yeoman refers chiefly to a free man owning his own farm, especially from the Elizabethan era to the 17th century. Work requiring a great deal of effort or labour, such as would be done by a yeoman farmer, came to be described as yeoman's work . ^{[ 1 ]} Thus yeoman became associated with hard toil. ^{[ 2 ]}

Yeoman was also a rank or position in a noble household, with titles such as Yeoman of the Chamber, Yeoman of the Crown, Yeoman Usher, and King's Yeoman. Most of these, including the Yeomen of the Guard , had the duty of protecting the sovereign and other dignitaries as a bodyguard, and carrying out various duties for the sovereign as assigned to his office.

In modern British usage, yeoman may specifically refer to

• a member of a reserve military unit called a yeomanry , similar to the militia , traditionally raised from moderately wealthy commoners in England and Wales , and today part of the Territorial Army ;


• a member of the Yeomen of the Guard


• a member of the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London


• a non-commissioned officer usually with the rank of staff sergeant or Warrant Officer Class 1 in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army , an appointment achieved upon completion of a 14-month technical course .

In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard , a yeoman is a rating usually with secretarial, clerical, payroll or other administrative duties . The first women in the U.S. Navy were Yeomen in World War I. ^{[ 3 ]}

In the Royal Navy , the Royal Canadian Navy , the Royal Australian Navy , and other maritime forces which follow British naval tradition, a Yeoman of Signals is a signalling and tactical communications petty officer . ^[1]