Posted on Mar 22, 2014
Why do gate guards/MPs salute non-front plated officers in vehicles?
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Deleted because I failed to find it in the reg first. Sometimes people are just wrong. Thank goodness I looked it up before further embarrassment. I suppose I never fully read this paragraph on the first part of the sentence:
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.
Ok to save a little face - lol - when does it make it impractical? When 40k Soldiers are coming in to base during rush hour?
Deleted because I failed to find it in the reg first. Sometimes people are just wrong. Thank goodness I looked it up before further embarrassment. I suppose I never fully read this paragraph on the first part of the sentence:
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.
Ok to save a little face - lol - when does it make it impractical? When 40k Soldiers are coming in to base during rush hour?
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Most Air Force bases I've been to do ID card checks for every vehicle. Some do 100% (every passenger), most just check the driver's ID. If the gate guard checks the ID, he should be saluting officers, rush hour or no. It takes no additional time to render a salute (and no additional time for the officer driving to return a salute).
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SFC Michael Hasbun
Yeah, but there's still tons of them around. Most vehicles here at Lee still have them on...
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CW2 (Join to see)
Ah ok. My wife has had two new vehicles since they stopped so we are well past that.
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1LT (Join to see)
I prefer Army bases to Joint bases for that reason, I will not salute a POV. I will salute an individual or an individual (recognized by front plate or name-in-window) in a government vehicle. But I'll be damned if I salute a car.
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Lt Col (Join to see)
The Air Force stopped something like seven years ago. I commissioned in 2005 and I've never been given a sticker by the AF. I did have one for the Navy in '05 (I was at Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight school).
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