Should a 2LT salute a 1LT?

I just feel this this isn't getting enough attention.

I feel that a higher ranking officer should be required the salute be any lower rank, officer or enlisted. A 1st Lt. is a higher rank than a 2nd Lt. so a salute is required.

I know this is an old thread, but throwing down my 0.02 - if you outrank me, you're getting saluted. Period. If you salute me, you're getting a returned salute. This is pretty black and white in my book.

Long live the Lieutenant Mafia. No need to salute..just chuckle in delight as you pass each other by. Black bar and butter bars..raise up!! On another note..let us continue to flog this dead horse.

No S-, there I was....walking down the sidewalk at Camp Lemonnier, when who should approach but a Navy Ensign......and he saluted me!

Ok, I know that he is correct by regulation and doing the right thing,etc....but I could not help but think of this thread, the parodies, etc and start laughing. It definitely made my day.

While at Bragg today I was saluted by a 2LT and the world did not explode. Right after that another 2LT raised his hand and was about to salute but stopped half way. He looked pretty confused. I am sure he was trying to think about what he read on the post formally known as "the post"

Army Regulation 600–25
1–5. Hand salutes and salutes with arms
a. For instructions on executing the hand salute, see FM 3–21.5, paragraph 4–4.
b. All Army personnel in uniform are required to salute when they meet and recognize persons entitled to the salute.
Salutes will be exchanged between officers (commissioned and warrant) and enlisted personnel, and with personnel of
the Armed Forces of the United States (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard), the commissioned corps
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service
entitled to the salute.
c. The junior person shall salute first. Accompanying the rendering of the hand salute with an appropriate greeting
such as, "Good Morning, Sir" or "Good Morning, Ma’am" is encouraged. Personnel will not salute indoors except
when reporting to a superior officer.
d. The practice of saluting officers in official vehicles (recognized individually by rank or identifying vehicle plates
and/or flags) is considered an appropriate courtesy and will be observed. Salutes are not required to be rendered by or
to personnel who are driving or riding in privately owned vehicles, except by gate guards who will render salutes to
recognized officers in all vehicles unless duties are of such a nature as to make the salute impractical. When military
personnel are acting as drivers of a moving vehicle, they should not initiate a salute.
e. It is customary to salute officers of friendly foreign nations when recognized as such. The commanding general,
U.S. European Command; the commanding general, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh U.S. Army; commanding general,
U.S. Forces Korea and Eighth U.S. Army; commanding general, U.S. Army, Pacific; and commanding general, U.S.
Army, Southern Command, are delegated the authority to establish policies for recognition courtesies prevailing locally
for foreign officials. Should inactivation eliminate any of these commands, the authority will pass down to the next
level of command. This authority will not be delegated further.

"All Army personnel in uniform are required to salute when they meet and recognize persons entitled to the salute.
Salutes will be exchanged between officers" "c. The junior person shall salute first." O-1 is junior to O-2 DONE. Does anyone want to explain to me that an 2LT is not junior to 1LT? Didn't think so...I hope no one does...but only time will tell.

Eliminate the names then because it seems to be what's tripping up everyone who thinks it ok to not salute. Should an O1 salute an O2? Every time until the senior says he doesn't personally require it. But in a place of business around other servicemen it shows respect towards the senior in addition to showing that they know their rank structure. Otherwise you make the impression that you are a bag or full of yourself to everyone around that sees it. Being in the service you are expected to maintain a certain image. And it happens to be in the regulations so there should be no debate.

Having spent 10 years in the Army and now on my 13th year in the Navy I can tell you why there should be a salute. First it is a documented regulation and supports good order and discipline and respect. We are not all equal, one is a 2LT and one is a 1LT. You earned that rank. You are not saluting a person but the rank. You may wonder why such the big fuss. Well why have a regulation then...or any regulations? These are customs and courtesies that served previous military members well. In the Navy they have gone down this path we are discussing and the result is an officer/NCO corps that is questioned at the lower levels of authority (PO/ENS/LTJGs/etc). These are a code of conduct that play into how we conduct ourselves in situations civilians cannot appreciate.

I can't believe the seasoned vets who are getting the mentoring and peer thing confused with rendering proper military courtesy. &nbsp;The 1LT out ranks and is a superior officer to the 2LT; end of discussion and the junior officer owes a salute to the senior officer. &nbsp;In the work center, yes they are more equal and can be more casual when addressing each other but they also have to know that when in public they must render proper courtesies.<div><br></div>