Individual Instruction
AFMAN 36-2203, Chap 3
• Lesson Objective
– Identify two historical points of the salute
– Recognize three situations when salute is appropriate
– Review Individual Drill Step Rubric
• Guidance/Regulations
– AFMAN 36-2203
– Army Field Manual 3-21.5
When the "National Anthem" is played indoors, officers and enlisted
personnel stand at "Attention" and face the music, or the flag if one is
present. They do not salute unless under arms
The Salute: An Act Of Military Courtesy
• expresses mutual respect and pride in the service
• Never resent or avoid saluting
• Privilege: denied to prisoners because their status is considered unworthy
of the comradeship of military personnel.
• The most common form of salute is the hand salute. However, there are gun
and rifle salutes.
History:
• Days of chivalry
– knights dressed in armor to raise their visors
to friends for the purpose of identification
– the junior was required to make the first gesture.
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Time of the Borgias.
– daggers were used
– custom for men to approach each other with raised hand, palm to the front, to
show that there was no weapon concealed.
• U.S. Navy
– the British navy required juniors to uncover when meeting or addressing a senior.
– Gradually, the act of taking off one's cap was simplified into merely touching the
cap or, if uncovered, the head
– present form of salute.
Outdoors
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Individual Instruction
AFMAN 36-2203, Chap 3
Review
Exchange of Salutes
WHO:
Officer & Warrant Officers
Exchange upon recognition
Junior Member Salutes 1st
Head & eyes turn toward Colors or person
saluting
Officers in moving military vehicles
Indoors
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no saluting unless formal reporting
Formations
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only person in charge
Civilians-president and if military
member is recognized in civilian
clothes
Groups
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1st to notice officer
Public Gatherings
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not rendered
Note:
Prisoners denied to salute
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In and out of the area all day long, appropriate to salute and greet at the first sighting
When in doubt…SALUTE!!
Other situations to salute outside
Pledge to the flag
National Colors pass or presented
Playing of the National Anthem
Playing of taps
Rendering honors by firing squads, canons, or guns
Individual Instruction
AFMAN 36-2203, Chap 3
Review
Hand Salute
Used for training purposes only
Performed in two counts
Raise right hand smartly
Extend & join fingers around waistline (thumb
along forefingers)
Form a straight line between fingertips &
elbows.
Upper arm is horizontal & parallel to the ground
Tip of middle finger touches corner of
headdress, eyeglasses or right eyebrow.
palm flat & tilted slightly toward the face
Present, Arms and Order Arms
Individual Instruction
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Exchange of Salutes
Outdoors
Indoors
Formations
Groups
Public Gatherings
• Between military
pedestrians
• Officers in moving
military vehicles
• Civilians
• Prisoners
• Work Details
Individual Instruction
• Present, Arms and Order Arms
• Eyes Right (Left) and Ready Front
Individual Instruction
AFMAN 36-2203, Chap 3
pg 31
Eyes Right (Left)
Ready Front
Requirements: halt or while marching
Commands: Eyes. RIGHT (LEFT)
All persons except those on the right (left) flank turn their heads & eyes
smartly 45 degrees
Ready, FRONT
Return heads & eyes smartly to the front