salute

[Neesy]

Salute at attention, standing straight up, heels together, feet at 45-degree angle, left hand curled closed with thumb along trouser seam, saluting arm to the side, straight line from elbow to fingertip, with fingertips lightly touching edge of cover (term for hat, cap, whatever is on your head). Salute first to higher ranking, they return the salute, then you drop the salute.

Army's different, I think, but in the Marines we did not maintain cover when indoors unless armed. No cover, no salute. So no saluting inside.

And I know that this degree of detail makes the average person go, "Lighten up. What's the big deal?" Well, if you're in, it's a big deal, and if you're portraying people who are in, then your portrayal should be accurate.

I think maybe the British salute is different from the American salute?
The Canadian military one sounds like what you described actually.

 

[Grandpa]

I think maybe the British salute is different from the American salute?
The Canadian military one sounds like what you described actually.

Definitely different. And I'm just speaking for the Marines, the smallest of the branches. There may be slightly different protocols for the other branches (for instance, I think in the Army, you salute indoors even when you're not covered).

 

[Lepplady]

I think maybe the British salute is different from the American salute?
The Canadian military one sounds like what you described actually.

I don't know how true it is, but I'm told that American troops salute with their palms facing in because America hasn't lost a war.
In the army, if we needed to salute somebody not wearing cover, the tip of the middle finger touched between the arch and outer corner of the eyebrow. Unless the soldier wore glasses, like me. Then the middle finger touches the corner of the glasses where the arm meets the frame.
These guys mostly got it right.

(The vfws can salute any fecking way they want. they've earned it.)