@Aron Speedy Look at that. Ya learned of a new movement and was so excited that you decided to use it incorrectly. Man, kids grow up so fast and incompetent these days.
@Aron Speedy BLM is a dumb ass communist group. This channel, from the videos I've seen so far, having nothing to do with BLM. They make sure to remove all patches for the videos and haven't revealed anything I've seen security related.
Officer: You ain't gonna salute me!? AF enlisted: Sir, I can't tell if you're a Major, a Lieutenant, a TSgt or a Senior Airman until you're like 2 feet in front of me.
We had cadets back in the 90's that would come to various bases. They always wanted to be saluted. Our captain was out one day hearing a cadet yelling about it, and he explained that we were preparing to deploy to a combat zone. If we salute anyone, they are a sniper target. With that, the captain salutes the cadet, then walked away laughing.
@@cripplegunsmith1 Cadets get ridiculous sometimes. My favorite was when a Cadet tried to get a CW-4 to salute him and that was a precious moment to watch in my career. The Chief basically tilted his head, looking at the staff sergeant the Cadet was with, one eyebrow slightly raised above the other, and grunted. He didn't even say a word as he was going into Battalion HQ for a staff meeting (of which I was the slide turner and the Cadet was going too.)
@@Zachomara There is nothing more majestic than the look of a Chief Warrant Officer. I swear they must go to a special class to learn it. I had a CW3 who could just look and grunt an entire briefing and there were no questions at the end.
@David R. The Marines I talked to said the same thing with calling the NCOs by their specific ranks. In the Army, we only had to worry about the First Sergeant and the Sergeant Major. All the other NCOs were Sergeant (except for Corporal, but that's a weird rank in the Army these days)
@@Zachomara The AF don't care at all. Pretty much everyone is a Sir/Ma'am if they outrank you considerably and/or you don't associate with them regularly.
I was with a trainee who saluted a full bird colonel with a jelly donut in her hand. The colonel laughed it off. And I think we all sighed a breath of relief.
Had this one butter bar I absolutely loved. I was cursed to work in a headquarters unit, so I had officers in my face all day. You learn quick which ones want the salute, and which ones will almost kill you for saluting for thw 30th time, lol. Now this butter bar...he was so new, he still had his afterbirth connected. Without fail, every morning he would arrive with his brief case in his left hand and his coffee in his right hand. We would all jump up and snap to attention and give the sharpest salute. Every time. Return salute. Coffee everywhere.
@MisterMediocrity-uu9gx you aren't supposed to have things in your right hand when approaching. You have to transfer whatever you are holding to your left hand.
Really? A fucking Klondike bar? I’m sorry but that shit was weak. I’m getting a better laugh typing this shit. And 135 people liked this? You found your crowd. I just don’t get how you got Klondike bar... like are you saying he did this for a Klondike bar??
You ever been smoked for not saluting a Major inside by a SGM while the Major looks on confused as fuck? the logic "it's a glass roof, that means we're basically outside. Gotta love it bro.
I guess it depends on the mood they are in, at Fort Hood in the '90s when I was a PFC, the 3rd Corp Commander was passing me and one other PV2 in my unit, in his van, I told bro there go the post commanders van and the stars are uncovered, he just sat there but I salute, the van stop and the reclining chair raise up, the driver got out and got his name, our entire chain of command was in that office getting an ass chewing.
shit thats pretty much anywhere. ive seen them just change direction so they dont have to salute. ive also send a major get on someone when they was looking down and didnt see him. which that guy had his boonie hat on backwards
@@2ndcoat3 I was walking down the street and Thought I saw a Butter bar Couldn’t tell because The AF decided to put spice brown onto the ranks Soon as I got close The two guys in-front of me just turned around.... I continued walking and lone behold it was a Major Not a LT, Saluted him and he just kept walking on... lmao
Soo true! When i was in the Austrian army (not Australia) there was a meeting we had to guard and the first persons who came in where low ranking officers and i had to salute every single one. But at the end one general came in and he completely surprised me because i was looking somewhere else but he just went up to my mate and me first even though we where the lowest rank in the room and he shook my hand and asked me how i was doing and just talked normally with me. After the meeting he came up to us with our officer in charge and said something like: „give these two a free day tomorrow and let them take all the food and drinks thats left“ Such a nice guy
This reminded me of the scene from the movie Death of Stalin, where Zhukov arrives at the funeral, and when he walked into the room he went to shake the hands of the lower enlisted and then proceeded to belittle the other officers and generals.
Mate I'm Australian, I feel your pain. "Australia? Is that Austria?" "No......we're the ones with Kangaroos, Austria is in Europe, we're in the middle of nowhere."
As a retired army office this true to a point. It really depends on the person. When I was an LT I really didn’t care about the salute. As a major I cared even less. When it came to briefs I always tried to keep them short as possible. Then again I was enlisted first, so that may have been the difference. I remember when I was the logistic officer for a Battalion our executive officer (a major) was a real jerk. He would go out of his way to make people salute him. One time during PT all the staff officers were on a run and he was leading it. He stopped our run and jumped all over a groups of soldiers because they didn’t salute him. And we were in our PT uniform….nothing showing he was at all. Nobody liked him.
When I was in the Air Force I overheard an Air Force major was telling a story about another major friend of his was walking around at Camp Speicher in PT gear and passed two Army 1LTs in uniform. They quickly stopped him demanding to know why he didn't salute them, he quickly pulled out his ID card and said "because I am a major" then kept on walking like they didn't exist.
My favorite encounter with an officer was in tech school during training. We were marching back from the DFAC and we see a captain coming our way. As soon as the element leader's hand began to lift up for the salute and greet the captain yelled "NOPE." and quickly grabbed his hat then threw it like 20 feet behind us and kept walking then picked it up after he passed us and put it back on. We fucking lost it.
@@bubbayee-yee2799 Naw, in the Marines Officer’s salute back. There’s always that dirt bag that is running around but it is the exception. The Corps is still holding tight to customs and curtesies.
@@bubbayee-yee2799 I got out 11 years ago, and my experience is that division/line officers are too burned out to give a damn. Only the pogest of pogies cared about salutes. MarDiv officers avoided enlisted
Was pulling door duty at a memorial service once and this one officer not from my unit I guess was a press liaison or something, because he was in and out of my door for hours running all over the place, and always looking distracted. I saluted the guy *every single time* he came by, until finally "Oh my god, you got me! Please stop." CSM said "Greet everyone who comes through this door." So I did. And I broke an overworked officer.
Back when I first enlisted, if we saw a butter bar walking our way out group of 15 would walk in a single file line with 10 ft between each other and them salute us back one by one. Within the week they started crossing the street to avoid us.
BAHAHAH lmao is it just me, or do the newer butter bars act like complete dicks all the time? I've yet to have a decent LT that doesn't want to smoke me for not saluting them-- but Captains and Majors are always suppperrr chill.
@@levene_c098 That's because they know the LT is doing the job of smoking you when ever possible. Remember, the LT doesn't hate your company, he just hates you!
When I was in the USAF back in the early 70's, there was an E-5 who was a legend among the enlisted rank. The E-5 was in charge of the medical clinic doing flight physicals for pilots and flight crews. They were told to be at the clinic at 0800 hrs to compete paperwork and to make sure no one was late. The actual flight physicals didn't start until 0845 hrs. A 2nd LT got upset and riled up that he was told to be there at 0800 hrs when it didn't start until 0845. The 2nd LT threaten the E-5 that he could take the stripes off his sleeves. The E-5 calmly took off his shirt uniform with the stripes and threw it at the 2nd LT. Luckily, other officers told the 2nd LT to shut up and sit down. Back in the early 70's, flight medical records were paper and you hand carried them to your new duty station. After the flight physical, the E-5 took the 2nd LT's medical records and made them disappear. Without flight medical records, the 2nd LT was grounded until the missing records could be re-constructed.
As a pilot (civilian) you have to be retarded to mouth off to anyone that holds the future of your medical or your flight certificates. Couldn't imagine mouthing off to my medical examiner, dude keeps me in a job lmao.
@@jimbob100-d3l A “ridiculous rule” is debatable since asking patients to show up early to fill out paperwork is fairly standard in civilian and military medical facilities (more so in the military). What was truly “ridiculous” is that a lieutenant had a public temper tantrum over a rule that the NCO had no control over. The indignant lieutenant could have complained directly to the clinic commander (who I believe was a Major). Instead the lieutenant went on a power trip against an NCO who was simply following his orders. In the end, the NCO flexed his power when the lieutenant's medical records mysteriously disappeared and he ended up grounded. That’s karma.
I totally get why that E5 was a legend hahaha! I remember a good handful of Army E5's & E6's that were cool cats to work for. But those guys would put up with a lot bs coming downhill. Respect!
I was a brat...went to base library with my dad once...an airmen passed a lieutenant missing the salute...lieutenant set to his childlike version of an asset ripping...I think my 16 year old voice was deeper...he told the airmen to salute him 100 times. My dad, E8 at the time walks up to the lieutenant and says something like, "excuse me, sir, it is my duty to remind the lieutenant of his obligation to return each and every salute...I'll take over the counting for you." He dismissed the airmen and walked off. The funny thing was my dad saying to me with a huge smile on his face...like a child almost..."I always wanted to do that, waited a long time for the chance." We were getting in the car when the airmen ran up to him and thanked him,,said he knew who he was and was glad for NCOs like him. He was a great man...every time I ran into someone who worked for him, they'd rave about him. RIP, dad.
@@clv2015 That was him...I remember being six years old when he gave me the first lesson on "Mission and Welfare"...no mission succeeds if the welfare of the troops did not have supremacy over all else." Thanks for your comment.
National Guard Officers are the best. Once a new guy just out of basic reacted "correctly" to the Company Commander entering the room at weekend drill. Everybody just stared at the private like he was crazy, the CC said "We don't do that here", and then we were all joking about it for the rest of the day. Nobody does that.
@@sinnirr what the hell are you on about😂 ever been in a SOF unit?? They could care less if you even acknowledged their presence, and those are literally the tip of the spear units.
Navy here...I once watched a butter-bar complain to a master chief about not getting a salute. Master Chief reaches in his pocket, pulls out a quarter, flicks it to him, and says, "Here. Find a payphone, call your mom, and tell her you met a REAL sailor today."
Haha reminded me of a moment during my basic training - one of the recruits stopped everyone to salute the officer - the officer turn around and ran way. The recruit was left standing there extremely confused lol
For almost two years now I’ve walked past the same officer and watched him go from butter bar to 1st LT, and every time he sees me he rolls his eyes cuz he know I’m finna salute his ass lol
I'm not in the military, but we do something similar at the firehouse but with calls. Practical jokes, are a thing at the firehouse and what those guys come up with, is very creative, I have seen a lot. We have these TV screens all over the place, and it tells you what department is running what call and once you learn how to really read it, you can get out of the firehouse before those tones even go off. I was riding day shift and the guys and I were in the watch office, one of the career guys said he was going to to take a nap (since we were slammed with calls the night before and didn't get much sleep) and as soon as he walked out of the room, one of the guys yelled to him "you guys got a call." I start walking to the apparatus bay, one of the medic/firefighters pointed at me to stay where I was standing, then I realized that they were joking around, and that career guy came back and said "nice try, I saw you point to her." Not only did they get him, they got me also. But we did run a call pretty soon after though and it was a bit of an interesting one.
At my in processing for basic, we were all in a room with no DS. Out of nowhere some guy yelled "AT EASE!" but no Drill had walked in. About 5 seconds later, another guy jumped out of his chair and started yelling at the guy sitting behind him, his face blood red going, "You think I said that shit! You think I said that shit!!". Another guy came over to try to de-escalate the situation and was welcomed with a punch by the by the pissed off red guy. Both of them fell over and knocked down a bunch of chairs as they went. The whole room went nuts for about ten seconds and then everyone sat down like nothing happened. To this day, I have no idea who yelled "AT EASE!". But I'd imagine the guy who actually yelled it was so proud of the choas that ensued because if him.
Reminded me of USMC bootcamp. The drill instructors demanded you scream the proper greeting like you're about to die but if you hit a regular supply marine who's not accustomed to the yelling you'd get a "the hell are you yelling for man?? I'm right here, go back to doing what you were doing"
My favorite officer I ever met, was my platoon leader who passed away overseas. He was green to gold, so he made it to E4 before he transitioned. So he knew all about the ins and outs. He got us out of so much b*******, and he very rarely made us do s*** that was redundant. He rather have us doing real training than emptying a connex for the 45th time to find the same pair of thermal f****** vision that we've lost and then found and then lost and then found every single layout. I miss that guy.
100% facts! Had a female Navy Ensign (O1) walk up to me while I was working on a water pump, BEHIND a shower tent in Zagreb, Croatia. All I saw was a pair of boots next to me, so I thought it was a co-worker. I look up and she's standing there, saluting. She clears her throat "uuh-umm" basically telling me to stand up and salute her. 🤦🏾♂️
Back in the 80's i missed saluting a Navy officer who i passed at midnight going to my duty station. It was pitch dark except for the light at the facility door step. i was about to enter when i heard a voice out of the dark calling me to attention ( which i did). The officer proceeded to chew me out while i remained at attention for few minutes. My excuse that i didn't see him 😅 may have been true but was inadequate at that moment. Other than this and saying "yes sir" i kept quiet. I was an E4 at a joint service assignment. The officer was in the Navy and i was unfamiliar with rank on the sleeve but never forgot that leason! All officers ranks are entitled to receive a salute. Until i retired in 1992 i always cautioned those i supervised to observe an individual's rank and act appropriately. If in doubt its Better to salute than to miss your opportunity to show proper respect. Rank Has its privileges. Respect others and they will respect you.
I’m sorry but fuck all that, she went out of her way to come up to you while you’re working on a water pump to request a salute. The delusion of some people.
I've had the opposite experience. Had a CO who would stand 50 yards away on the Jetty during a store-ex staring at people to see if they'd notice him and salute, and a brand new Sub-Lieutenant who told us at the start of a group field training day "Compliments are suspended for the duration."
My dad, an Army dental Captain in the 70s, said that when he went in during Vietnam, they had guys get commissioned straight to LTC due to their time in civilian practice. He said he and the other Captains would always make sure they were in a group with the LTCs, so that the LTCs had to do all the salute-returning. Most surreal day in my life wasn't when my kids were born; it was when I pinned on Navy LCDR, and realized I now outranked my Dad... I realize the importance of courtesy and discipline, so I always tried to make sure I was between the "new" officer and "old" officer in the video; not demanding it, but not downplaying it either. If you think me good enough to render a salute to me, I'll return it with the sharpest, crispest, most boot salute I can manage as a "thank you, you're awesome too". But then, I was a Chaplain and tried to take care of my sailors as best I could.
The worse was boot camp for sure. Mine was in great lakes and I swear I had the hardest time identifying officers and chiefs in the navy. And those officers do have hard on about their salutes like no others.But man if you saluted a chief, dear lord it was an even worse ass chewing " Do I look like a fucken cake eater seaman? I work for a fucken living, get down and give me 20" is engraved in my skull lmao
That rant sounds super familiar. It sounds like the rant a WO-5 gave me (we worked together for a couple years) so as a Soldier, I had to salute him every chance I got just to mess with him. He started going back into the door of the building and taking other exits to avoid having to salute back.
Oh yeah, that was me. Was at Great Lakes back in 2005 and I have never been more terrified at trying to quickly identify if it was a gold leaf or a gold anchor at a distance. I was lucky that I had 4 years JROTC behind me so that I was at least familiar with the ranks going in, but when you're already stressed out from being in boot as it is, those two seconds of "oh shit, is that a chief or a lieutenant commander?" is enough to give you a panic attack.
When I was still in the army, we had a WO come down to our motor pool where we were hanging out. We had never seen a WO before and didn’t even know the proper way to greet him. So he tried to smoke us for it.
Worst was marching around base as RCPO, and seeing someone walking towards you and then saying “Good afternoon Chief,” then they tell you they’re a senior chief, and you’re just like “Fuck”
True story, when I was in the Air Force, I was leaving the base hospital and going out the door the same time as one of the doctors who was a female Major. I asked her if she wanted a salute when we got outside and she just laughed and said "boyy you better not trouble me with all that!" 😂
Lol please do. As long as you treat lower enlisted like they are human beings and don’t look at them as your slaves. You should be fine but don’t get too friendly with them. You have to draw that line
Officers just get tired of all the formalities too for sure haha. I remember officers on my base would do their best to avoid the younger airmen (cross the street, walk the other way, pretend they don't see you).Love the video it was so dead on hahaha.
@@TheMaritimeHorror Yeah, Warrants were always the coolest of the officers Cause they were all enlisted at one point and knew the deal for sure. They like it at first but get over that shit quick lol.
When an officer does to that is shows a lack of appreciation for the customs, traditions, and history of the US Military. As an NCO it is my duty to respectfully address the issue. By directing every single soldier I see to go out of their way to ensure the officer gets saluted. As a good NCO, I inform the soldiers as to why, as it provides them the ability to exercise greater independence of action.
After dealing with landmines, snipers and people trying to kill you on a daily basis, dealing with life back at base is a completely different reality. Sure, military bearing is still important, but being an asshole to subordinates is no longer possible. It's all about training the next group to go out.
Definitely true asf just like bro I almost died more times than o can count this salute super correct shit is dead just listen to the instructions practice and have a nice day
1:12: This is literally what my Captain at ROTC is like. He’s so chill and always is like “at ease-you’re good” when we get into formation for him. Exact same energy.
I remember when I was at tech school at Bullis, one of my buddies and I (Butter Bars, New, ROTC-type, 2 each) were going back to the classroom after lunch. We knew that going down the main sidewalk while everyone's going back and forth between the buildings would mean we're saluting so much our arms will want to fall off. So we decided to go around the buildings and walk along the road / cadre parking lot to avoid those crowds. As we're congratulating ourselves on avoiding putting everyone through that salute gauntlet, we round a corner and end up face to face with a whole pack of enlisted students. So now everyone's saluting and all we could say was "well, it was worth a shot".
@@philipramsden4975 I was a sub guy. I think I can count the amount of times I actually saluted one of our officers on one hand with fingers left over.
In the Seabees, sometimes the new/junior officers would come out to the project sites, de-blouse, swap out their white hard hat for a brown one(enlisted), and start working with us. Try to blend in so no one would notice. Guess they hated doing office work too.
That's when you know you have a great officer corps! The ones who aren't afraid of getting a little dirty and working amongst us lower lifeforms. I've had a few good ones like that, treasured all of them!
Especially because so much of the office work is nonsense. I spent an absolutely inappropriate amount of time basically correcting people's writing like I was a third-grade grammar teacher. I loved getting a chance to go out and be in the OC spray gauntlet or to play OPFOR for force-on-force training. Working alongside the troops was more of a goat rope because you have to arm up, get a GOV, get a radio, and then you have to reverse it all to turn it all in when you're going back to your office life.
Best Officers were the ones who KNEW their peeps. My top 5 taught me to provide top cover while I CTA (cover their a$$). They EARNED my trust and respect. I saluted the person (male & female) rather than the new breed who feel I had to salute their uniform. Guess that's why I loved the movie "When We Were Soldiers". Down range (Iraq & Afghan) I was there in the beginning when the WO and OICs would tell us DON"T SALUTE for sniper sake. Then on my 4th or 5th roatation the new breeds would DEMAND a salute. I'd shrug and say, okay. They were worried more about making rank and getting that bronze star rather than anything else. I retired out in '14. Thou I weas AF I was with Marines in OKinawa and Army in South Carolina and downrange. Best ones was the old school heads. SALUTE to them!
On base appointment is fine to cancel, but if they say that about one that is in town with a civilian, you gotta pay for it out of pocket since you didn’t go and rescheduled day of. Wife had that happen to her in the Navy, said they had “training” and then everyone proceeded to sit around for the next four hours
Civilian here... sooo if I'm understanding correctly, people nowadays are A) worried about being saluted based on rank... and B) Allowed to leave instruction when they have a booboo?
@@pcd1377 The Private saluting the older officer on the other side of the road is what made the Private stupid. Normal distance is 6 paces away (the road is further than that.) The LT was lost without a compass on the other side of the road as he ran across it to yell at the Private for not saluting, even though he was far outside the normal salute range. This is why officers are usually given a more experienced NCO. And ooh boy does it get hard when you only have three stripes to try and tame a butterbar (been there). That's a big reason why Platoon Leaders usually have Platoon Sergeants that are Sergeant First Classes (E-7's as opposed to a Sergeant which is an E-5)
I like how the military teaches you to salute, but on the battlefield you do that shit you're basically painting a red dot on whoever it is youvare saluting
All troops will salute you only because they have to, but what you want is for them to salute you because they respect you. Never met a more respected officer than the one who doesn't take bullshit from his higher ups and often listens to the concerns of his sergeants. It's a goddamn plague of bad leadership in the military. The gunny with the best fitness scores and perfect records and who will never tell his higher ups no are by far the most snake-like, backstabbing assholes I've ever met because they're protecting their career over all else at all costs. Be wary of the guy who's a yes man because everyone under him probably hates his guts, and trust in the staff who are willing to say no to you; those are the ones who know their troops better than you do. If all the lower enlisted hate somebody it's usually for a good reason. Good luck in your career!
@@AudioAftershock thanks for the input I always look for ways to make me a better leader. Although I’m still early in my career I’ve made an effort to check on my enlisted personnel every day even if it’s simply asking them how their day was. I don’t want to be “that officer” that everyone feels they can’t come to. I’ll obviously have to have the line between being a “friend” and being someone who cares but I do not believe that will be an issue. After all enlisted members are the backbone of the military regardless of branch, so I want to make sure I’m taking care of them as best as I can.
@@derek-ef5ef With that last sentence, you show that you are already miles ahead of some 'leaders'. As an officer, you wear gold on your shoulders. Make sure your people know that you alone bear the weight of that gold; the shine is all for them. Do this with actions, not just (hollow) words. Your NCO's have heard all those words before.
@Vince Nav thank you for the positive words. The divide between officers and enlisted is very unfortunate, but I’m going to make it my duty to be one less statistic of officers that don’t care. I’m sorry to hear about your tough times and struggles, but I’m glad to know you had someone there who you were able to open up to instead of bottling it up. Hope everything is well with you now and going forward and you take care!
Real accurate. My previous CO didn't like getting Saluted. He was pretty chill. Best company Commander I had. During Christmas in Japan, him and couple senior and junior officers along with our SNCOs had like a get together with the company in the barracks. We shared Burgers, Hotdogs and Beer. Best night ever. Everyone was pretty chill and blasting music till like 0200
When I was back in I was fortunate enough to never have encountered a snob officer. The reason is because most of them were absolutely clueless and relied on us to help them make themselves look good for exercises. Even then my flights were chill af. Still don't miss being in but due to that factor it made life fairly easy and straight forward.
@Santino W I remember having an officer who I thought was absolutely insane. I'm sitting in as the assistant BN ammo manager and he goes in to take a look at the training inventory and he tells me to redo everything because he wants two extra zeros on the number of training rounds. We were a support battalion and not a combat arms one, and I tried explaining it to him, but he was so insistent on getting the ammo he had me redo two years of ammunition requests the official ammo manager had put in. Not ten minutes afterward, I got a call (I was a SPC at the time) from the Brigade CSM asking for me, asking why I changed the ammo requests. He told me the requested amount was more than the entire Brigade had for training rounds, and all I could do was agree with him until we finally put the Lieutenant on the phone. He was an LT, but this was his second duty station. The first one was the CO of a COP in the middle of nowhere where they kept getting overrun and shot at daily. The guy obviously had PTSD from it all, but he was one of the officers I wouldn't have hesitated going into the fight with if we were there together. He knew how to thrive in a war zone, just not in garrison.
@Santino W Oh I'm sure it's far different in combat arms. I was just in a combat support unit in Korea. The LT I knew wasn't combat arms, either. He had just got stuck where he had been, but it fricking made him into who he was.
@Santino W It would considering his MOS. He wasn't under threat in Korea (that was where we were stationed together). But I do know a logistics guy (not 88M, the warehouse technician. I can't remember the MOS cause it's been a couple years) who basically held off 30 AQI guys in Iraq after a helicopter crash and tried to breech the perimeter. There are way more people out there than you think that do come under fire. Usually it's the supply guys, but the other ones I know about are the intel guys. The come under fire all the time if they are outside the wire. (which they do go out a lot)
I was public health for 10 years in the Air Force and for all the officers I interacted with I can easily say this is accurate as hell! Some of the worst ones to deal with were the new officers from the academy, the best ones were prior enlisted.
BIG OL FACTS! I remember being stationed at McEntire and a BG walked into a briefing. Bodies shot up, but buddy was damn near Obama cool as he just trotted to the front of the room to give his lil briefing. Then again, I saw a Tech and a Major hugging that same day too. Guard folks just different. Lol
When I was in basic for the navy I was trying to salute an officer, but there was a blizzard the night before so when I brought my arm up to salute I also slipped on ice and busted my ass. The officer asked if I was ok from across the street then kept walking 😭😭😭🤣
I remember one time our unit came back from FTX and we were all walking single filed back to our unit HQ. One officer that decided to walk out of the building to get to his car. He had to salute all 30 of us walking by.
This was equally as accurate during my time in the Air Force from 2003-2011. New officers LOVE throwin those bars around. Meanwhile the old school Oakleafs don’t give af. Before you’re even at attention they’re all “at ease at ease” or they do that “As…. You…. WERE” haha 😂
We walked around a corner one evening, ran nearly smack into a guy with about half a second to recognize and respond, so I let out a quick 'evenin' sarn't major' for the rank I thought I might have seen. We were in the dark and on the move, the guy was nearly past us already as soon as we encountered him. He responded as we passed with a casual 'I'm a lieutenant colonel but whatever.' and kept walking without incident. Nobody gets as triggered about getting their rank acknowledged as the newest Officers and the oldest CSMs.
I got yelled at by a new officer while I was still in boot for not saluting. I was in week 1 and didn't know anything. Found out from my captain the dude was brand new shortly afterwards. That same captain by the way, I accidentally called sergeant on two different occasions which he laughed off and said "I look better than the rest of this Cadre combined how could you confuse me???"
A couple of years back I went for a joyride when my LT took his doors off of his jeep. Coming back on base he made me salute the poor confused one striper as we drove off...I was an A1C. He saluted me first every time until our last day working together. Great guy and a solid young officer from a SrA's perspective.
I got called to the mat one day while walking to work in the rain. I was a PFC and was getting soaked and still had a mile to go. I had the brim of my cover down and my face turned down slightly to keep rain from hitting me in the face. I was vaguely aware that someone was walking toward me, holding an umbrella. We had a lot of civilian contractors around and I mistook him for one. Turns out, he was a LTC! He was in class As with the black trenchcoat on and a bag on his shoulder, covering his oak leaf. The other one was on his far shoulder (his right). He stopped me after I walked by him. He asked me why I didn't salute him. It was tense, but he just said that I needed to tighten up. I was like, "Fuuuck." Bad day.
Not gonna lie... who else got anxiety from watching the inconsistency in rank personalities😂🤣.... have me guessing all the time if I was in trouble or good
I was in the Army, and can confirm this is all true. When I was in AIT, me and another soldier were walking down the sidewalk. There was a 2LT across the street using the crosswalk and by the time he was within 6 paces we were already past him with our backs to him. Next thing you know he yelled at us and asked where his salute was. We saluted him but were like “??!”.
Outside when you are covered, if they are closer than 30 paces but further away then 6, and if you are walking in opposite directions. If you walk past them you salute and say "by your leave, sir/ma'am". If they're coming at you perpendicular, you can salute to be safe, but its not a big deal if you don't.
Do not salute indoors unless reporting in. Do not salute enlisted (unless it's different in jrotc). Salute outdoors with the corresponding greeting of the day (good morning/afternoon/evening sir/ma'am). Greet far enough away so that the officer hears you and has time to return the greeting before they past abreast you. Do not turn your torso to salute. Do not salute if you are passing or are being passed by an officer. Hold the salute until they finish saluting you or pass abreast you. There are lots of other details but generally it's never a bad idea to salute and greet. Look up the AFROTC 2021 FTM for details or the AFH.
I’m currently a 1st Lt chaplain and always said I didn’t want to be “that LT” demanding salutes, especially as a chaplain. But one day I was walking with 4 other officers: a full bird, 2 majors, and another Lt. With airmen now being allowed to walk and talk on their phones, we passed a young airman on FaceTime. Passed all five of us and didn’t render a salute. The colonel, one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet any other moment, turns around and with a look I never saw him use before proceeded to correct the airman. Needless to say, I took that as lesson to politely remind people not to forget customs and courtesies. Better for the chaplain to gently remind than to suffer embarrassment by a full bird.
It’s super accurate the older officers have nothing to prove the younger officers right out of ocs think there shit hot until a nco/ staff show them they arnt usually
not my entire platoon lining up single file while walking down the sidewalk, spaced out Just Right, forcing the group of flight officers to salute nonstop while we all passed one another 😂🤣🤣🤣 Good times. My Army career was the Best worst days of my life
My uncle is a command sergeant major and his son did ROTC in college and started as a 2nd LT. They brought me to my uncles base in Florida to get some tax free clothes and stuff. As we were walking through the parking lot a private came running out and almost bumped into my cousin, stopped, stared at my cousin's bars and kept going. My uncle immediately about faced and smoked this dude right in the parking lot. "YOU ALMOST KNOCK OVER AN OFFICER AND DONT EVEN SALUTE HIM?! GET ON YOUR FUCKING FACE PRIVATE!" He made this kid do 100 push ups right in the lot. I will never forget how pissed my uncle got for somebody not respecting his son's bars. lmao
