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Well, expect something along the lines of "they're European, therefore they're not American, so they're crap." Or some similar leap of jingoistic logic. 8)
quote: One thing about the US armed forces; why do they all salute navy style rather than properly?
That's debate territory, but the salute is based upon knights raising their helms to look at each other...different salutes are based on different helms. In fact, beyond the knight, it was the first navies that started to use what would become known as the modern salute. In that sense, the American salute is more true to its roots than any in the world, since it's based on the salutes of the American Cutters in the early eighteen hundreds.
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Oh, right; thanks for that! I'm used to RAF/ Army salute rather than the US style/ Navy salute and it always looks a bit odd to me.
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So, what do the Brits do? Some kind of heil-Hitler-style salute? The TOS Romulan salute? The Vulcan salute? A black-power fist-in-the-air?
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Wraith, they seemed to have missed your post as to why you decided 'crap' was a bit harsh on European militaries.....
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Sol's, uh, got it, I suppose. Well, not exactly. I mean, none of the wiggly stuff. So he doesn't.
But in a nutshell, palm open facing forward (and slightly downward?), middle fingertip to side of eyebrow.
We had an amusing dealing with this very issue on the, erm, musical I'm working on at the moment. The cast members playing British soldiers got a crash course in saluting from our Stage Manager who turns out to have been in Cadets when he was younger (trust me, plenty of smirking has been had over this). Anyway, there was widespread consternation because our loyal Canadian thespians knew how to salute the American way, not the British/Commonwealth way, and thus eyes were cast to heaven and the American media was condemned. And they were then brutally re-educated into saluting like soldiers from any respectable country would. End of story.
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There are several variations of the Rimmer salute, remember. The half-Rimmer (for emergencies), and the double-Rimmer (for special occassions), for instance.
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We had an amusing dealing with this very issue on the, erm, musical I'm working on at the moment.
This will be mentioned often from now on.
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Hey, everyone! Tom's helping with a musical! Take note!
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Oh, yeah...I hadn't actually been thinking of the different hand orientation. Just that Rimmer+salute=hilarity.
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So, basically, it's exactly like the US salute, except that the palm faces out, rather than down. And, somehow, this is a major deal?
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Quite. If the Valar hadn't come out of the West when they did who knows what would have happened. Perhaps one day we of the lower peoples can also see the light of the blessed lands.
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