Posted on Mar 30, 2019
Should you wear your uniform hat indoors when serving as a presiding officer at a Masonic Lodge?
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In a Masonic Lodge, the Worshipful Master is the presiding officer and wears a hat (no one else does). Some of us are also military (hence my asking the question here) and sometimes circumstances require us to attend Lodge in uniform. If you're the presiding officer, what say you about using the headgear that goes with your uniform as the hat you wear indoors?
UPDATE: The question is NOT "should I wear my uniform". If there's no time between the end of the duty day to change before I have to get in traffic so I can get there, I'll be wearing my uniform, period. That's not even a part of the question. There was one time I was on Annual Training orders (yes, I'm a Reservist), so I was in uniform during the duty day, and I got special permission to come in ASU rather than ACU so I could go directly to Lodge (I wasn't the Worshipful Master of my mother Lodge then, but I am now, and am projecting being on duty at Fort Meade MD on the date of my mother Lodge's next Communication - and we meet in DC)
The question is solely about wearing the uniform hat indoors with the uniform. That's it.
UPDATE: The question is NOT "should I wear my uniform". If there's no time between the end of the duty day to change before I have to get in traffic so I can get there, I'll be wearing my uniform, period. That's not even a part of the question. There was one time I was on Annual Training orders (yes, I'm a Reservist), so I was in uniform during the duty day, and I got special permission to come in ASU rather than ACU so I could go directly to Lodge (I wasn't the Worshipful Master of my mother Lodge then, but I am now, and am projecting being on duty at Fort Meade MD on the date of my mother Lodge's next Communication - and we meet in DC)
The question is solely about wearing the uniform hat indoors with the uniform. That's it.
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The greater quaetion is, should you be wearing a military uniform I am environment like that? Thank you for your service.
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CSM Darieus ZaGara
Is it a sanctioned (within regulation) environment for wearing a military uniform?
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The lodge and your military uniform both have their rules and you should abide by them separately. If you are not in a situation where you wear your headgear inside in a military uniform, then you should not wear it with the lodge. If you are having this conflict, then the answer really should be clear to you about whether to find a way to change or not go in uniform. Only adding this because obviously you have a conflict and that should speak volumes to you when you can be in a US government uniform and when you should not. Have you ever gone home in the middle of the duty day and just hung out there for a few hours despite it feeling wrong? Or maybe skipped PT because you could come up with an acceptable BS excuse but it felt wrong? Usually if there is a conflict, generally you are in the wrong.
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