Fair or Foul?

I don't believe it's written in any AR or other manual anywhere that we have to applaud at predetermined points, or else we have 'failed to render the respect befitting the Commander in Chief.'

I believe they did treat him with the appropriate respect that they felt he deserved. Just being the CIC does not mean a standing ovation for every statement made. You want to be a leader convince us you are! Because your actions speak otherwise.

MSgt (Join to see) - Just like rubber stamping a wrong they have hard feelings about.

SGT Matt Windsor IRT your comment - you're correct - for veterans, which is the group he was addressing. However, trust me, I've worked in the Washington, D.C. area way too long in my lifetime - AD is always required to HOOAH on command with POTUS in attendance. I've been part of 14 Presidential visits to troops, both in the country and oconus. Whether the order comes from POTUS sycophants or the receiving military unit leadership....SOMEBODY in the COC will make it an ORDER for military personnel to loudly make the appropriate noises on cue. Like I said, I've only been part of 11 Presidential visits - none of which I enjoyed - and 5 different Presidents. The name of the man changed, but the required HOOAH, etc never did.

This is a fitting qoute for all leaders from the CinC on down.
The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stewart Mill