Editing Janissary (section)

==Characteristics==
[[File:Nordisches Museum-Ralamb Zyklus DSC6473.jpg|left|thumb|The Janissary Agha leading the corps, 1658.]]
The Janissary corps were distinctive in a number of ways. They wore unique [[uniform]]s, were paid regular salaries (including bonuses) for their service,<ref>Mark L. Stein, ''Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe'', (I.B. Tauris, 2007), 67.</ref> marched to music (the ''[[mehter]]''), lived in [[barracks]], and [[History of the firearm|were the first military corps to make extensive use of firearms]]. A Janissary battalion was a close-knit community, effectively the soldier's family. By tradition, the [[Ottoman sultan]] himself, after authorizing the payments to the Janissaries, visited the barracks dressed as a Janissary trooper, and received his pay alongside the other men of the First Division.<ref name=Uzuncarsili>{{harvnb|Uzunçarşılı|1988|pp=66–67, 376–377, 405–406, 411–463, 482–483}}</ref> They also served as policemen, palace guards, and firefighters during peacetime.{{sfn|Goodwin|1998|pp=59, 179–181}} The Janissaries also enjoyed far better support on campaign than other armies of the time. They were part of a well-organized military machine, in which one support corps prepared the roads while others pitched tents and baked the bread. Their weapons and ammunition were transported and re-supplied by the ''[[Cebeci (corps)|cebeci]]'' corps. They campaigned with their own medical teams of Muslim and [[History of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire|Jewish]] surgeons and their sick and wounded were evacuated to dedicated mobile hospitals set up behind the lines.<ref name=Uzuncarsili/> By the mid-18th century, they had taken up many trades and gained the right to marry and enroll their children in the corps and very few continued to live in the barracks.{{sfn|Goodwin|1998|pp=59, 179–181}} Many of them became administrators and scholars in [[Ottoman government|other branches of government service]].<ref name="Glassé 2008"/>