Why do the British salute differently to the Americans? 

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This cracked me up! 🤣

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@PATTON nAH Cuz

@PATTON not before China.

Before people get back disease: the military salutes with the palm down, like the British navy.

Actually USA also used that salute en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

i usually T-pose to assert dominance

@@red_amoguss ah a man of culture

As a german / American, I honestly don’t know my salute (for Germany) since I live in America so I do the American salute.

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@@timothyhartwell2849 gonna steal that one buddy

Lol you wouldn't be stealing from me. You'd be stealing from the Red Dwarf episode "Stoke me a clipper"

Yes!!! Good idea

I agree

Sounds good

Just Cause. Because of Operation Just Cause.

Agree hmm That will be good

Lmao

Schizhoe • pretty much all countries have a salute it isn’t that big of a thing.

-R/DeadMemes-

Not really, of all things vise versa

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Yeet

Wish i could go to the us military when im older

I found the Czech military salute.

Can you guys do the RMS Empress of Ireland?

@@SlickDaRippa Hello, US Army soldier here, the USMC pattend MARPAT to where no other branch could utilize it because they wanted the pattern to be unique to their branch alone, Im also assuming that he's using the US Army because its the oldest, largest, and most important branch of the US military. Just my two cents.

I am from Poland , polish soliders in II War was kind and brave .

I didn't understand this comment until I saw the exploded soldier. That poor man.

That can’t be Polish, too many vowels.

@@davidcockayne3381 For when You go shopping in Poland, just say this; 'piędziesięciogroszówka', or simply shut up and hand them 50 Zloty.

@@Ulvetann In my local Polish sklep 'Żubrówkę proszę' and £17.50 works quite well.

Better be glad that they are on our (US) side - dirty or not

When you conquer 2/3 if Europe and only remembered for surrendering in ww2 *shame*

A National_ist Acrobat Aussie salute looks like someone waving flies away with their right hand.

Or you clean your hands before salute

@@anticommunist5899 Yeh, right, just wait there a minute while I go wash my hands. . .

@James Reilly well that vikings did but that was over a thousand years ago

@James Reilly Fun fact, though: The UK invaded and occupied Iceland during WW2 to "protect" them from being invaded and occupied by Germany.

@@allenz7688 yeah i know im talking about when battles were fought here 😁

@@allenz7688 i actually love history so I know pretty much everything

I’m coming over there and naming myself King

squidward suarepants is it the hail thing

[TA] YTCat10 yes

Except when you are in Basic Training for the Bundeswehr. And if squidward is German (which I doubt), maybe he/she should do a little research.

@@Carl15O3 Oh, I know. He has beat me about the face and head with it. He has tried to RAM it down my throat. No, juat no. I can't judge those people for what they believed. Now, if someone tried it TODAY, I would be the first to condemn.

and yet, gov officials of MEXICO are still throwing that arm straight out there for the whole world to see in 2016

Literally to call a salute the CO or NCO says "Present Arms". Quite an irony i'd say likewise.

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this comment is GENIUS!

@@garrett3698 the command "present arms" is normally associated with a collection of soldiers, ie a platoon company or battalion who will all be carrying weapons, this comand is preceded by "general" or "royal salute" depending on who is being saluted. Individual soldiers not carrying firearms,ie officers, or senior nco's will salute palm forward, as they would not be presenting arms, just saluting. Hence the command "general salute, present arms", anyone on parade without a fire arm "general salute" with a fire arm "present arms". This is of course specific to the British army, don't know what other countries does.

Illusion 100

Differently *from.* =^[.]^=

Yes, as Britain is superior

@Fox-like correction: was superior until we decided to not waste our money on the Military.

@@evasivesnakezz Britain started America mostly, so it would make sense

Skylander Lego America started Democracy and won the war sooooo we are superior (also on January 18 your queen is gonna go bye bye)

French:Both hands up

Cue a random 'Goose' doing an "Am sorry, I hate it when it does that." 'Internationally Understood Salute' ..with one finger.

200th thumb up I rule :)...

@starving troll 'Sean Kyle' sounds German to me Seen Kyle, Seen Kyle, Seen Kyle

@@derritter4970 and the Italians!

: Right arm 90 degrees from the body, underarm tilts 45 degrees, middle finger 2cm away of the temple, hand back to the front you mustn't see the thumb

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What country is that buddy............

Same.

Do they chant something like...

Do they also just happen to wear a red ribbon in their left arm?

welly thegod *Horst Wessel lied plays*

What about the north?

@@GamingWithLitNorth Korea is just salute there’s no salute cry

oof

Oh wow that’s something...

I heard that was originally a Roman salute; and up until around the late 1930s, that was the salute used in schools here for the Pledge of Allegiance. For some reason, it fell out of favor during the World War II period.

That was my first thought. Von Steuben laid out their drill according to Prussian standards. I doubt the Continental Army was in any way influenced by the RN saluting style.

G. V. Exactly what I figured

The old Prussian and Imperial German traditions heavily influenced Chile.

Actually, we don't show the palm because the palm is considered a sign of surrender. In contrast, we have defeated the English... twice. Then as a show of good faith we keep them from being defeated by the Germans... also twice.

Most likely from Prussian tradition. All the "palms facing forward is a sign of surrender" is most likely mythical. Every nation has its myths.

CptJack PL it’s ironic because I’m pretty sure ur saying ur Australian and the Australians lost a war to emus

Lol 😂 I also saw the emu war in Simple History's older video

Kiwi army salutes to!

Indeed

Yes

It’s done to show that your weapon hand is free, for the Army.

Thanks for the update. @@peterking8586

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USA also used *that* salute en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute

@@aslamnurfikri7640 that's pretty cool

Actually that's a copy of the Roman salute.

@@knightowl3577 Whoosh

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@@boilermakerpatriot God protect Chile

Thank you!

Exactly! You saved me the trouble of typing it. 😊

Exactly I hate how it's written as if they invented the salute but the British did because the British empire existed before the us

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this sentence is beyond logic

WHY YOU WROTE DAS AND NICHT DU?! ._.

@@DavidLangeYU91 NEIN DU!

you do know das means "the" right? Like, Das Deutsche sprach ist schön

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No they wave a white flag

i love those france jokes but they are far fetched from reality france is best european country with a win to lose ratio

@@yourlocalt72 Yes that is true. I understand that they are far from the truth and appreciate your understanding and sense of humor.

And holding baguette too?

Erwin Rommel. Is that counting when their allies win? Honestly curious.

Scottish

Cuz they have bad teeth

Simple History the Netherland?

Polish salute

hmmm maybe B L I T Z K R I E G

Good for Germany 🇩🇪🇺🇸

Same for Italy

XD

But during the third Reich and even before in the Kaiserreich where the normal salute common at the military. But I don't know it's more similar to the American or the British one.

You can go to prison for it? Doesn't that impact a persons freedoms/rights?

Funny, since we are slouch hats: we have to salute infront of the brim. So on a side view, it looks we are about to high five someone

American civilian's salute: one hand (or both) raised, typically in some semblance of a fist, middle finger extended upward. See also-- offensive hand gestures, Full Bird Salute, or Stone Cold Steve Austin salute. 😀

I feel like that has some connection to the use of swords

Hi greetings from America we use the palm down salute

Some countries use only one finger for that purpose😁😉

Us brits use a 2 finger salute aswell ✌

SuperKokssssss pretty weird

Greetings from Germany! We eh. We don't salute anymore :D

Baba de boopi

Good one dude 😂😂

DomWeasel we didn’t lose half the time to the french. (I’m british). We won the 7 years war, the napoleonic wars, and stood against the Nazis when they surrendered.

​@@jimmy2k4o We lost the War of the French Revolution, the Wars of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Coalitions and only won the Sixth because of Napoleon's Russian blunder. We also lost the Hundred Years War and all the English lands in France, creating the modern island kingdom of England. For every small war we won, we lost another. We also let ourselves be surrounded by the Nazis and fled the continent, leaving behind all of our tanks and heavy equipment and our allies to fight alone while we cowered behind the Channel with Churchill sending the British ambassador in Washington to give the Americans all headaches begging for support. We stood against them because the Germans had no means of crossing the Channel and effecting an invasion. All simulations of German invasion using river barges to transport troops across the Channel would have seen them destroyed by the RAF and Royal Navy; and that's if they weren't swamped by the Channel itself. If you don't respect your enemies, you can't boast about besting them.

@@Username-2 It's bigotry.

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@PATTON eh when you get everyone pooping in the loo we talk again.

@PATTON Most people don't even have toilets there.

SKilledP0TATO What are you living in the 50s or something?

The Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force saluted the same way as the British until 1968. At that time a new Drill Manual was issued for the unified Canadian Armed Forces, along with the CF green Hellyer uniform for all -- yuck. In the mid 1980s, the three services went back to separate uniforms, with a common rank insignia. In this decade, the Canadian Army reverted to the traditional (i.e. British Army) officer rank insignia (except for general officers). Who knows? Perhaps the Canadian Army will revert to the British Army-style of salute in future. I certainly hope so, but then I am a Brit who served for 29 years in the Canadian Army. D.A. Stolovitch, CD Captain Canadian Forces Military Police (Retired)

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@@a51541476 Are you of Polish background?

What exactly does RCMP stand for? royal canadian military police?

@@Maxcraft12 Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

@@YorkyOne of course, mounted because they ride mooses into battle 😂😂

Maximilian think of it as the Canadian version of the FBI

@@manwithdatbag4307 oh, that helped. Thanks :)

Interesting...thanks!

As a Polish person I have only 1 thing to say... *Wait that's illegal*

Russia's poor

I was wondering. Thanks!

Why did it changed comrade?

Thomas Edgerley nah probs us just taking the piss out of eachother

Hahaha that’s probably the most popular salute in our country

US military have the 1-finger salute between Enlisted men of different service branches Navy 1-fingers Army, Army 1-fingers Marines, and everybody 1-fingers the Coast Guard

RWBimbie What soldiers get up to with each other in the privacy of their bunks is their business, I suppose. I never knew the tradition mandates that the Marines get fingered by the Army.

And the two finger salute!

Hah!

Probably a bit like the Bolivian and Mongolian navies.

I doubt they have one, it’s a glorified merchant fleet

Colin Kepple the Bolivians actually have a navy though

@@northatlanticcommonwealth1188 We actually have sort of a navy (I'm not sure though they're called navy). They are stationed in Bodensee (big lake between Germany and Switzerland) and The lake of Geneva (between Switzerland and France)

You forgot the fact that we are telling the Americans to speak to the hand

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Nah Americans salute different to the British we were doing it longer than you bud

@@bpar32100 USA blew france 😆

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@@ricogo2447 did you say "why whiskey"?

@@Number1Irishlad Tool.

@@georgekenny9820 dont know what that means bud

Lmao

Oh the most clever comment.

Ha

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@@kingoscar5884 Douche.

King Oscar this is something you only do once in public in Germany right now. Even if it is just a joke between friends... it’s complete forbidden.

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Str3am F0x29 same

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In Chile we also do the Roman salute to swear to the national flag

@@APONOV based

its quite audibly 'full hand version'

Your salutes will make a fine addition to my collection.

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@@Reskov Oh I don't think so

OI Stalin it's the German chancellor Mr. Bismarck

Dah

Nyet

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At fist I was like wtf then I get it.

LOL! I give up

Not to be confused with the 1973 american version.

Oh yeah Man the white flag they waved must’ve been big and heavy am I right

As a Brit, ex army, Good Skills lads

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Better research than the video maker. Thank you.

My God! Actual facts on RU-vid. THANK YOU.

Re: "without arms, or with side arms only," You have to admit that sounds just a bit .... odd. No arms? Any salute would be rough. Side arms as compared to top or bottom arms? Ick!

@@Weesel71 hahaha, what "Without arms" references is without a long musket or carbine. From the 19th century to the present the proper salute while holding a long gun is to "Present Arms" and the soldier holds the gun straight vertical, center of face, arms outstretched from the body.

@@Weesel71 yukyukyuk 😜🤣😂

Tell that to a Legionaire and see how long you last.

@@helenbarton4910 the toughest soldiers in the French army aren't even French.

Dien Bien Phu

That joke is not funny when you know the actual history of why they surenderred P.S they were forced to

*FOR SALE:* French military rifle, never fired, dropped several times.

Exactly

What

Or, the Americans salute differently from the British.

You keep your fancy book learnin to yourself! Don't you know that the internet is the land of broken english, poor grammar, and indecipherable sentences?

@@cornpowa Yes you are right. But my cause is noble even if unachievable.

Both questions have different target audiences

I was suggesting that since the British Military predates the existence of the USA, it’s the American military that do things differently from the UK.

Арвиль how’d you figure that?

A more correct question would use a more appropriate preposition.

Florida Aviator I dumbed the grammar down a little in order to match the OP.

Video Watcher the Americans would have had mostly contact with the UK navy and marines so no surprise they salute like them

Their main reasoning for having their Palms downwards is because it is a sign of weakness and giving up to have your palm facing out.

The British salute like this because we show that we wouldn't turn dowbattle as raising your palm shows your up for it

Actually even during the civil war the union army did it. It was really cool.

as an american, help

Thats one theory, but so what if you raised your visor, most people still wouldn't recognise you unless at very close range. Most mounted knights would have had some form of recognition anyway, their coat of arms exhibited on their shields or horse etc. also the armoured knight was obsolete on the battlefield well before saluting caught on. Probably more to do with lifting your hat as mark of respect, which evolved into touching the forehead.

there is no evidence for that theory. While removing the hat does have evidence.

Knights weren't upper class...in fact, most were homeless.

I was not aware of this salute going away.

@@jonyoung6405 I haven't seen it used but it may still be in use.

Its still in use

When I was in, not THAT long ago, we still used the palm down chest salute, with the weapon in "sling arms" (slung on the left shoulder). It was always done with the right hand. If the rifle was on either shoulder, it was brought down from shoulder arms and presented vertically and centered in front of the body as the "rifle salute."

No you don't. You are referring to the Bellamy salute. It was originated by the Romans and used by tons of countries including the US to salute the flag until after ww2 where they changed it to not look like the germans.

@@jackshyt4 Originated by the romans: Nope en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_salute

@@jackshyt4 r/woosh

@@heriberthuber54 It does come from romans, if you acctually read the website

Still a nope

actually this makes more sense tbh

As more people are familiar with the American salute we went with that title :)

Cause your russia. Heavy

Hello my Lord

Finally someone that said it correct

I was in the British army for 8 years and we were taught palm down, however I recall seeing officers do it palm up? Sometimes they would even put their wrist in a sort of really gay looking angle and point their hand up almost lol I always put it down to officers being little posh boys but maybe they have to that for some reason

@@ryanwinchester6644 I was British Army (albeit briefly), the salute is palm outwards, not palm down

.......... sad...so it seems You do know nothing about Poland.. even smth so obvious... I hope that at least you know where Poland is on the map...

@@Hemerlok You mean the region of Poland in Germany? Or Prussia?

​@@notoriousfly9260 Germany which capital is a former Slavic stronghold? Prussia which is divided between Russia and Poland?

You are correct about Navy salute (shortest way up and down). This is said to be due to lack of space on board ship. PG. (OF6 retired)

They're

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@PATTON Nice bot

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Considering the US has barely existed and the UK was saluting first so its only right old chap!

@@KP-viking88 You probably saluting like Germans if not for the Americans, 'ol chap. 😉

@@bryanaa196 Oh dear, someone doesn't know their history do they. Remind me, how did Operation Sealion go? If you need a clue it didn't involve the US. Yeeeeeeehhhhaaaaaaahhhhhhh ride 'em cowboy!

Bryan A A the Americans won the war from the air, the British on the seas, the Russians on land and the French from inside. There is the incredibly simplified version of the European theatre of war.

Bryan A A the Battle of Britain made hitler abandon his plan to invade and about 7 Americans helped us in that so shush

Longest way up, shortest way down!

@@Richard500, not forgetting the gunner’s push into the breach...

*1941 Japan wants to know your location*

Australia is exactly the same as the uk which is great except a slightly different accent

thecamper2034 excuse me?

@@thecamper-rm2rt in what way are we "exactly" the same as the UK ? Its like your saying every asian country is the same

@@thecamper-rm2rt have you even been to australia...

In that case one should say Americans salute differently *from* the British because the British were saying it that way 200 years before Americans started saying differently than (and because Shakespeare said it that way).

Actually, up until the late 19th century the American military (to include the Confederacy in the War Between the States) saluted with the palm facing out just as the British did. A great majority of the American armed forces' way of doing things was copied from the British army during the American Revolution, and this included the hand salute. That changed in the late 1800's, although I'm not sure why.

@@traveller4790 we mostly don’t salute cause we don’t wear any head gear most of the time and soldiers don’t use bayonets either . I think the strawberry generation has not even slaughtered a chicken in their life so sticking it to the stomach of another person is unthinkable especially when the soldier has to clean his bayonet afterwards of blood , bits of intestines and faeces . Anyway the compact bull pup even with bayonet fitted is too short for practical warfare .

@@benganchan1420 Just who is this "we" of whom you speak? The American Army still trains with the bayonet and still issues it; they also still salute. So I'm confused - just who are you talking about?

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@AyeNaeBother Wehrmacht used the normal salute until 1944. By 20 July onwards they had to use the Hitler salute or risk being classed as a conspirator.

@Fnord Fnordington and btw: I am German, and I laughed at his the first 3 times....

US type.

Dr. Strangelove notably absent...

Nonsense. The Wehrmacht continued to use the normal military salute. The Hitler salute was for civilians.

oh ya my country raises right hand and levitates it to 20 or 30

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So do all nato countries. In wartime the US president becomes the top commander of the armies

Yea, to shoot themselves?

Nope

XD

I think ours is the best looking salute of them all

That's what I thought he was going to say when he mentioned it being seen as a sign of disrespect.

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@@BlueMonsterYT98 KGB were cosplayers compared to the Gestapo

Hail Hydra?

@@caspargeelen No, Hitmonchan.

*Phew* You almost got yourself banned from RU-vid, nice save.

You´re right about that!

I once saw a movie on tv that at first glimpse looked like it was about the British navy in World War II. The uniforms looked similar, the men's faces looked similar, and their understated way of addressing the situation looked British. Then I actually tried to hear what they were saying. I was shocked when I couldn't understand a single word they were saying. It was Swedish movie about the Swedish Navy.

@Phil M Or vagine

Not exactly. It's a memory of a polish soldier who losts a half of his hand in a battle, but fulfilled his orders saluted his superior with the wounded hand and died after it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-finger_salute

Polish salute represents honor and fatherland.

Poland : responsible for the greatest squadron during the battle of Britain, 303 squadron . Home of the best royal artillery company in WWII and some of the best paratroopers and SAS officers too. The story of Private Wojtek should be taught in British schools to show how the Polish people embrace life and others .

@@edmundscycles1 no chance as a pole who live in england , and went to secondary school and collage and never heard about any polish action that took place in ww2 , nothing about emigma code , nothing about battle of England , only some about concentration camps but that's about it

@@darekdarek4693 yeah it makes me really sad. I'm Welsh so know too well How crap our history in school is. We learn more about Vietnam than the battle of France and north Africa.

What country is that so we can nuke it?

WW2 Flashbacks fartnut

@@kriminalinspektorwolff5154 fortynine

Alexander Snorrason Yes! And Hopefully They Touch on The Polish Soviet War Of 1920

Good Idea man

Filipino right here,Emilio Aguinaldo was a betrayer of our own nation at that time.He sold out Heneral Luna to the Kawit of Brigade and slay him brutally.

Philippine drug war is better!

that doesn't sound very disciplined

@@gageamonette5120 our military is more of an natural disasters rescue service

@@urichulrik9298 avalanches?

Used by the Archers to show the French they still had their fingers to draw the bow string.

It eventually evolved into a gesture for the f word and evolved into the middle finger in the US

Then we would nuke it, so we would be free of such a country.

Nah mate it would be a dab

If that happens then all country will be joining forces to wipe Fortnite country.

Your all children. it would either be Take the L or Electro Swing

@@ludwigtheholyblade_777 they'll just build lol

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