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Those who have served anywhere has probably saluted or been saluted by people from other services. I have noticed that some are more crisp than others. Based on your experiences of which service has the best salute?
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I'd love to say Navy, but our beloved Marines are uniformly most consistent with that perfect snap. Could always see the pride in it.
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Robert Seits
SFC Dachtor Strange - they report out of the navy chain of command they also have separate funding and rank structure that is a formality at best.
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PO3 Charles Klassen
I answered Navy because I'm a Navy Veteran and always rendered a sharp salute when necessary. That being said, however I have seen many salutes and I have to agree with the survey. The Marine Corps is the sharpest group of fighting men I've seen. Always the Sharpest of salutes, and the most diciplined group I have ever been associated with.
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If the salute is properly executed, you can't tell which service the salute-er is in without looking at the uniform.
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PO3 Marty Gallagher
As a Navy Corpsman I can tell you that a Marine will hand salute better then any branch in the service...No question about it!!
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Sgt Gustavo Soto
Navy Corpsman are really Marines! They were Motrin dispensing machines in my day, but also really awesome at their craft! My solute to all Corpsman, Semper Fi!
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FWIW, the regulations for a "proper" salute differ slightly between Army and Navy, as I discovered when switching from Navy to Army.
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PO1 John Johnson
All I know is when I see a squared away salute, the 1st thing I think to myself is "Nice Salute, Soldier"! The 2nd thing I do is start searching the uniform for the "Identifiers"; because I spend most of my time "on base" at MacDill AFB, where Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen from all the US Fighting Forces and quite a few from many other friendly Nations seem to congregate. And, with all those different Services having damn near the very same uniform styles in a multitude of colors and shades, you have to be pretty quick to decipher Country, Service and Rank because no one's standing around lollygagging.
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