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Urbane Guerrilla · 11-12-2007, 10:36 PM

That was Orwell, Zen.

Ex military guys do salute, after the manner of their nation, although being no longer in the service they are by no means under any obligation to do so. The American salute shows the edge of the hand, either with index finger touching the brim of the cap or landing just above the right eyebrow, wrist, fingers and thumb all straight, upper arm ending up pretty much horizontal. The hand comes up in more or less a straight line from the hand being at the side, and returns by the same path. The Army and the Air Force may salute uncovered, that is without a cap on, indoors and the like. The Navy and Marines insist on one's either being under arms or with a cap on, and don't salute indoors for this reason -- it's against regs to keep a hat on indoors unless you're getting Article-Fifteened or court martialed.

The somewhat showier British salute shows the palm of the hand, wrist and fingers straight, sweeping up to cap brim or brow, by the rubric of "longest way up, shortest way down," so there's this big swoop of the open hand going up, stopping suddenly just so at the brow, then cutting straight down.

The hand or the hat over the heart is what the civilian does.

11-12-2007, 10:36 PM	#7
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	That was Orwell, Zen. Ex military guys do salute, after the manner of their nation, although being no longer in the service they are by no means under any obligation to do so. The American salute shows the edge of the hand, either with index finger touching the brim of the cap or landing just above the right eyebrow, wrist, fingers and thumb all straight, upper arm ending up pretty much horizontal. The hand comes up in more or less a straight line from the hand being at the side, and returns by the same path. The Army and the Air Force may salute uncovered, that is without a cap on, indoors and the like. The Navy and Marines insist on one's either being under arms or with a cap on, and don't salute indoors for this reason -- it's against regs to keep a hat on indoors unless you're getting Article-Fifteened or court martialed. The somewhat showier British salute shows the palm of the hand, wrist and fingers straight, sweeping up to cap brim or brow, by the rubric of "longest way up, shortest way down," so there's this big swoop of the open hand going up, stopping suddenly just so at the brow, then cutting straight down. The hand or the hat over the heart is what the civilian does. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.