Originally Posted by
Mac4Lyfe
When has it been a requirement to salute a marine? Do you know anything about the military or are you also another draft dodger like Sargent Bone Spurs??? You dumb asses tried to do the same thing to Obama. Tried to crucify him for not saluting the military. Learn the facts before you spew BS. Here, I'll help you.
Actually, no regulation specifies that the president should salute (or return the salute of) military personnel. In fact, U.S. Army regulations, for example, state that neither civilians nor those wearing civilian attire (both of which describe the U.S. president) are required to render salutes. The regulation states:
“The President of the United States, as the commander in chief, will be saluted by Army personnel in uniform.
“Civilian personnel, to include civilian guards, are not required to render the hand salute to military personnel or other civilian personnel.
“Salutes are not required to be rendered or returned when the senior or subordinate, or both are in civilian attire.”
Although other presidents have saluted military personnel on various occasions, the returning of presidential salutes did not become commonplace until President Ronald Reagan began the practice in 1981, Snopes.com found.
Reagan explained his decision a few years later in remarks to U.S. service members and their families stationed in Iceland:
“I can’t resist telling you a little story that I’ve just told the marine guard at the Embassy. The story has to do with saluting. I was a second lieutenant of horse cavalry back in the World War II days. As I told the admiral, I wound up flying a desk for the Army Air Force. And so, I know all the rules about not saluting in civilian clothes and so forth, and when you should or shouldn’t. But then when I got this job and I would be approaching Air Force One or Marine One and those Marines would come to a salute and I - knowing that I am in civilian clothes - I would nod and say hello and think they could drop their hand, and they wouldn’t. They just stood there. So, one night over at the Marine Commandant’s quarters in Washington, and I was getting a couple of highballs, and I didn’t know what to do with them. So, I said to the Commandant, I said, ‘Look, I know all the rules about saluting in civilian clothes and all, but if I am the Commander in Chief, there ought to be a regulation that would permit me to return a salute.’ And I heard some words of wisdom. He said, ‘I think if you did, no one would say anything.’
“So, if you see me on television and I’m saluting, you know that I’ve got authority for it now - and I do it happily.”
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