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What is the funniest salute story that you have?
Mine was when I was in my first command and I had two PFCs that I was advancing to SPC. They went to salute me as I was ordering them to fall back into formation one was so nervous she saluted me with her left hand. Then quickly corrected herself.
Mine was when I was in my first command and I had two PFCs that I was advancing to SPC. They went to salute me as I was ordering them to fall back into formation one was so nervous she saluted me with her left hand. Then quickly corrected herself.
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AIT in Ft Sam Houston, we actually did some of our training at the Navy barracks there in town. In the Army you find yourself making the unconscious assumption that when you see silver or gold, you better get that hand up. Unfortunately for me, Navy Chiefs do not have a great deal of patience with a PV2 still in training status trying to stay out of trouble.
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This story was relayed to me by my supervisor when I was stationed at Hurlburt Field. He was the third car in line at a traffic light at 1700 when the music started playing. The first car stayed put through every cycle until the music stopped playing. Meanwhile, the driver in the middle car decided to be an obnoxious ass through the music. Once the music stopped playing, the car door of the first car opened, out stepped a gentleman, put on his hat and turned around to approach the second car. The gentleman's hat had 3 stars on it. It was the AFSOC commander. The second car was a captain. LtGen pulls the captain out of his car and lays in to the captain as would be expected. The salutes rendered by the captain were apparently pretty bad so of course the general goes off on that as well.
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My story does not involve saluting, but it did get a unique response from the Base Commander. I was assigned one day to the flight line tool shed and this bird kept landing on my head and as you might have guessed the Base Commander walks in to see me standing at attention with this crazy bird on my head. The Base Commander quickly asked me if the bird was regulation head gear, then laughed and told me to carry on.
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My husband started his military career in the Navy. As an AG, he went to A at an Air Force base. One day as he was willing across base he was stopped by a young, new airman. The airman said " excuse me, but I don't really know which of you Navy guys we're supposed to salute". Hubby responded, "you've got to be kidding me! They didn't teach you in Boot Camp? The Navy outranks the Air Force! You salute ALL of us!". To this the recruit said " Thank you, sir", came to attention and saluted him ( an E-2)!
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A common saying when I was in was, "When in doubt whip it out." As a PFC I worked in S-3 for my first assignment. I cannot remember how many times I was given a salute by those who out ranked me.
The one that gave me the most shock was I met an old man at church who took it upon himself to lead me into Spiritual matters. I never saw him outside of church, till one day at a Chaplain's breakfast. I saw him sitting at a table but could not see exactly what he was wearing. I walked up to him, placed my hand on his shoulder and called him by his first name, which I often did at church. When he turned to look at me I almost threw-up. He had two stars and I tried to correct myself. I could see the shock on everyone's face when I did it. He said it was fine because we were at a religious event and we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord.
The one that gave me the most shock was I met an old man at church who took it upon himself to lead me into Spiritual matters. I never saw him outside of church, till one day at a Chaplain's breakfast. I saw him sitting at a table but could not see exactly what he was wearing. I walked up to him, placed my hand on his shoulder and called him by his first name, which I often did at church. When he turned to look at me I almost threw-up. He had two stars and I tried to correct myself. I could see the shock on everyone's face when I did it. He said it was fine because we were at a religious event and we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord.
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Sgt Jerome Dear
On a bright beautiful sunday on Pendleton I was out on the pavement playing with some remote controlled cars and jeeps that I had.Later around sunset this old man walks up to me and says that looks like fun,so I hand him a controller and say have at it and he joins me in racing the the cars.After a while I say hey watch this ,I had an army jeep and covered it in fuel and sent it across the pavement towatds the guard shack on fire.now when the MPs showed up with their rifles aimed at us they almost crapped their uniforms trying to salute the base CG whom I had never met before.I didnt know he was a two star Major General at the time,let alone our base CG.He was really cool guy.
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While working on our vehicle, another soldier and I were told to run over to the maintenance building for a part. As ordered we run as best we can though there was snow and ice on the ground. In mid run we look up and see our battery commander (BC) walking up. I slow to a walk and salute. My buddy hits a patch of ice, but is able to maintain balance, get into the position of attention, and salute while sliding forward. Our BC returns the salute and chuckles to himself as we continued on.
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Had a booter at A-School; so fresh you can smell the Lever 2000 on them. The story goes that if you see squirrels around you, you are to double salute them if you are in uniform. Remind you, there are hundreds of squirrels around Corry Station.
One morning, I was in the smoke pit across from the female barracks and saw booter snap to attention, double salute, back to attention the proceeded to the mess hall.
I don't think I stopped laughing for 5 minutes, lol.
There are others I saw like one sailor taking his mattress to the main quarterdeck to get stamped.....
I can't make this up even on my good days.
One morning, I was in the smoke pit across from the female barracks and saw booter snap to attention, double salute, back to attention the proceeded to the mess hall.
I don't think I stopped laughing for 5 minutes, lol.
There are others I saw like one sailor taking his mattress to the main quarterdeck to get stamped.....
I can't make this up even on my good days.
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USS SAVANNAH (AOR4) deployed in the Med, 1994. Pit stop in Augusta Bay, Sicily allows for necessary Medical visits at NAS Sigonella. Ship's company is required to be in Dress Blues (Crackerjacks with dixie cup white hat) for any business aboard NAS. As a BM2 (Boatswain's Mate, Second Class Petty Officer / E-5) part of my rig is a white lanyard for my Boatswain's Pipe. On foot, making my way back to the muster point an Air Force Major didn't know whether to piss or go blind and initiated on e of the smartest salutes ever slung in my direction. I, of course responded in kind but grinned the WHOLE way back to the bus and had a great story to tell.
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CPT Brian Maurelli, During BCT in 1953 @ Camp San Luis Obispo where we lived in "huts" w/2 double bunks and 1 single and a company latrine 30 meters away, I attempted to salute the PLT LDR w/a bar of soap in my right hand! The LT noticed!
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Before 9/11 when you could get through gates with window stickers, a gate guard saluted me with his left and then waved me through with his right hand. I noticed it and said I don't think you saluting me with your left hand is considered appropriate protocol.
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