It's obvious that you guys have never raised colors. When you are connecting the
lanyard you are doing it to a folded flag with some pieces of rope attached.
It's
not all that obvious about which line is attached where. Especially if it's to a
flag that you are not all that familiar with.
Bud Krueger
(who owned TD's when he was in the USMC)
My apologies to the list for this non-lbc item to a thread that didn't belong
here
anyway.
Scott Gardner wrote:
> > Soldiers have been known (my soldiers, in fact) to put up the American
> > flag upside down, or at least start to until the sergeant stops them. The
> > ceremony ain't as easy as it may look, and screwing it up is embarrasing due
> > to the import us military folks place on these things.
> > Those of us who have chosen to serve picked a certain branch for one
> > reason or another. I chose the Army, Scott and Skip chose the Navy, etc.
> > The Marines aren't known for their long analysis of situations, erudite
> > philisophy or really anything else associated with thought. They're action
> > oriented.
> > Someones said put up those flags, they did it!
> > But I bet the NCO in charge caught hell and gave it in spades!
> > I'm sure no insult was intended.
> >
> > Dan
>
> I've noticed this too, and can't understand the source of the
> difficulty. After all, there's only ONE grommet in the blue field of
> stars, and that's the one that goes on the upper-most lanyard. Hard
> to mess up, right? I still see both Marines and Sailors screw it up
> on a regular basis. I could understand it if the entire half of the
> flag closest to the flagpole were the same colour, but it isn't.
> Scott
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