Posted on Dec 10, 2014

RallyPoint member to appear on 'Jeopardy!' on Thursday, 11 Dec 2014!

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RP member CPT (Join to see) will be appearing on 'Jeopardy!' this week, on Thursday, 11 Dec 2014 at 7:30pm EDT. Wish CPT (Join to see) luck here in this thread, and send him all your knowledge telepathically.

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CPT Aaron Kletzing

Posted 10 y ago

Final Jeopardy question: "This is the rank of the officer who would be expected to salute a 1LT in the Army..." CPT (Join to see) SSG Robert Burns

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SSG Robert Burns

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It's actually less complicated than that. The origin of the salute actually comes from this. One Soldier was approaching another in direct sunlight. The Soldier couldn't see who it was and put his hand up as a visor to guard from the sun. He could then see the other Soldier's name tag who happened to out rank him and said "Oh hello sir!" The sir was in turn blinded by the sunlight reflecting off the flash of the other Soldier's beret and could not see who was addressing him. He then puts up his hand to guard from the reflection and saw who it was and said "hey whats up?" A 2nd Lt saw this exchange from afar and thought it was standard protocol. He couldn't find it in writing anywhere so for his first OER he needed a bullet and decided to write a AR on it. That is the origination of the salute.
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MSG Michael Caldwell

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1LT, Warrant Officers, Non Commissioned Officers

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MSG Michael Caldwell

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Correction 2LT

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CPT (Join to see)

10 y

CPT Michael Barden I meant stubon but I always get his origin mixed up with Lafayette.

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SFC Mark Merino

Posted 10 y ago

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