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Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport

Dr. Drill

You can submit your questions to Dr. Drill via e-mail to : DrDrill@CadetStuff.org.

Howdy from Australia, Doc.

Re your answer to 'Jim': You Yanks are way off the mark. You never - and I say again 'never' - salute when not wearing a cap. Read up on your military history and please tell that to George.

vinummy

Dr. Drill responds


Hi, Vinny!

Crikey! I don't know where we Yanks would be without you kangaroo jockeys! We owe so much to the Land Down Under: Kangaroos and koalas? Check! Mad Max? Check! Olivia Newton John? Check! Kylie Minogue? CH-CH-CHECK! Fixing our incorrect and foppish tendency to salute when uncovered? Just a minute there, Crocodile Dundee!

I'm not sure where you got your info, but it's not correct for all of the U.S. forces. The Sea Services - that's the Navy and Marine Corps - don't salute when uncovered, but the Air Force mess dress and Army physical training uniform (two examples) have no cover, yet standard customs and courtesies - including saluting - apply.

Plus, the Prez - who is the Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces - returns salutes and the last President to wear a hat was probably Eisenhower (that's back in the 50's, Bruce).

There has been a fair amount of discussion about saluting here on CadetStuff, but this one deals with the same issue: saluting uncovered.

The good Doctor is always interested in learning other takes on drill and C&C; so, my question to you is why are you so certain about not saluting uncovered?

Thanks for writing!

Dr. Drill

 		 

Caution: Dr. Drill isn't always one hundred percent serious. Please activate your Joke Detectors. And don't call us when you find yourself explaining to a membership termination board why you used a staple gun to keep a cadet's hands at his sides during "To The Rear, March". All we're going to say on your behalf is "Duh!"

And if you find yourself on the bad end of a serious counseling because you decided to go toe-to-toe with your squadron commander over the position of the guide during a squadron-in-mass formation or something similarly trivial, well, we're just going to point, laugh and call you names!

Dr. Drill welcomes comments and corrections. Nothing herein is to be construed as official policy unless quoted from an up-to-date regulation or manual and Dr. Drill is not to be used as a blunt instrument to reshape the pointy heads of your superiors. Dr. Drill has made an extensive study of the drill and knows some people who know some things, but he's not the Final Authority on what happens at your unit. That Final Authority is? That's right, kids! Your UNIT COMMANDER.