Posted on Feb 23, 2015
MAJ Monique Salinas
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Not sure if this has been discussed...

Why would a post overseas expect everyone to salute everyone in any given situation?

For example, Group A has a MAJ and CPT walking together from chow. Group B has a MAJ and LT walking to chow. All salute each other. Why? I understand who is saluting who but that is not what regulation states. What am I missing?
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MAJ Monique Salinas
Easy Ma'am, do like a private would and cross the street so you won't have to salute or get saluted
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SrA Matthew Knight

When I made the comment about doing like a private I was not implying that all privates do that, or that only privates would do it, maybe I should have added some emoticons or something to clarify that it was a joke
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SSG Program Control Manager
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Even better, space out and create enough distance between you so that they salute twice and you only salute once.
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SSgt Senior It Security Analyst
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We had an Intel Officer school at Goodfellow AFB when I was going there for Tech School. There quite a few times where we would see a "butter bar" coming, while in a group, and would space out so that the LT would have to return a salute to each one of us. It was all good fun. :)
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SSgt (Join to see) - I was at Ft. Leonard Wood for CCC and the privates were notorious for doing that to LTs. One afternoon as I was walking to the shopette, I was approaching from one direction and a platoon of PVTs was approaching from the other. Their DS actually had them double-time so that they could beat me to the parking-lot and he could dismiss them, just so I would have to salute a gaggle of PVTs.
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SSG Robert Burns
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No, saluting has never been discussed on this website. At least I can't think of any thread in particular.
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SFC Mark Merino
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Never.
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Can't recall any discussions either.
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GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad
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Agreed. Obviously too basic of an issue to be discussed here. Would never happen ...
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I think a few folks just became politicians.
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SGT Jim Z.
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When in doubt whip it out as it was taught in basic many moons ago. Of course in today's PC military it would be salute everything when in doubt.
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SSgt Senior It Security Analyst
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I love this line...

Especially when the other jr enlisted around would salute a Navy chief in khakis. I'd tell them it's a chief, but they wouldn't listen. They saluted anyways... It would, often times, be amusing to hear the admonishment from the chief in question.
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SSgt Auto Total Loss Claims Associate
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SSgt (Join to see), I remember a SNCO walking around the tech school grounds intentionally wearing the epaulets to see how many airmen he could get to salute him.
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