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Tell it to the Marines...

Dr. Drill

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

Dr. Drill Says:


Hi Kids!

The Doctor was nosing through an old copy of the Guidebook for Marines (14th Edition, ca. 1981), when he came across the following tidbits regarding saluting:

Saluting a Group of Officers - - When several officers in company are saluted, all retun the salute. For example: As a lieutenant, you approach a colonel accompanied by a captain. You salute the officers. The colonel returns your salute, and at that point, the captain also salutes. If you, as an enlisted man are accompanying a captain and a lieutenant approaches, you would not salute until the lieutenant renders the proper salute to the captain you are with. When the captain returns the salute, you then render the proper salute. (pg. 52)

Now, I haven't seen a recent copy of the Guidebook, but if there's one thing I know about the Corps, it's that they don't change their traditions easily. Unless someone has something more definitive and recent, I'm going to consider that the final word saluting when under the salute-free umbrella of a superior officer.

 		 

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.