[Milsurplus] Flag salute by veterans okayed!

[Dick]

Correct, Mac, for a vehicle carrying personnel in uniform.  For a civvy car, 
there's
no official rule and the occupants can all get out and render a salute.

Dick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
To: <rertman at ix.netcom.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; 
<jwatkins at omantel.net.om>
Sent: 08 August, 2007 10:32
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Flag salute by veterans okayed!


> If I remember correctly, the rules specify that only
> the driver of a vehicle on base/post at reveille or
> retreat is the one to exit the vehicle and render
> the salute for all in the vehicle.
>
> Hopefully, this simple comment won't bring down
> another bunch of wrath.
>
>
> Mac, K2GKK/5
> Oklahoma City
> USAF, 1961-1981
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Dick" <rertman at ix.netcom.com>
> To: "MILSURPLUS" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>,"jwatkins" 
> <jwatkins at omantel.net.om>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Flag salute by veterans okayed!
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:21:54 -0700
>
> I'm glad to see the law clarified so I can continue to salute the flag
> long after I got out of the Army, since I've been doing it all along.
>
> My work takes me to many military bases around the world and I
> always stop my car, get out and salute when the base flag is being
> raised or lowered.  Nobody on those bases has ever hassled me
> about it.
>
> The individual services, of course, require their members in uniform
> to salute the flag as it passes in parade or is raised or lowered and
> on some other occasions.  Until now, the services typically directed
> members not in uniform to place the right hand over the heart.
>
> I, for one, am happy with Sen. Inhofe's clarification and proud to
> render a salute.
>
> By the way, I was doing some work at a Navy station in HI some
> years ago and we had a long weekend off, so I decided to go out
> on a 3-day deep sea fishing charter with some friends.  As we
> headed out to sea and passed the USS Arizona Memorial, the
> charter boat skipper called us to the rail to render honors, and he
> did it again on the way back in.  I wish I could remember that
> charter skipper's name.  Bravo Zulu, skipper!!!
>
> Dick
>
>
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