CDOs no need to salute officers?

• LazerLordz

  31 Oct 05, 11:45

  Originally posted by SMAPLionHeart:

  Rambo didn't salute green , black , red , khaki green beret people.
  he didn't even wore a beret to begin with.
  
  

  He was not affected by the laws of physics too
• SMAPLionHeart

  31 Oct 05, 12:05

  Originally posted by LazerLordz:

  He was not affected by the laws of physics too

  SAF should just train 100 of them and insert them into enemy ground via C-130
  
  
• Rockhound

  1 Nov 05, 10:36

  think in real life...doesnt happen much too often...i onli salute 3 crabs and above......the rest i greet with a smile...they all happy liao...
• Gedanken

  1 Nov 05, 13:28

  Originally posted by chanmalichan:

  Do not know Gedanken will agreed with me.
  
  The unit cultre in Cdo is alittle different, men and officers work together for common objective. We are working in form of team. Therefore, very often, we dun salute, buit we pay due respect to their rank.
  
  Must understand this point, your platoon mate started BMT together with you, but when their are back from OCS course, it is like old friends liao. Very different from infantry unit deployment.

  Yeah, that's pretty much the way it is. There's one exception, though - it generally only applies within the company. When other companies are present, especially junior companies, some respect is still paid to rank.
• mfscrewu

  2 Nov 05, 10:18

  Originally posted by chanmalichan:

  Do not know Gedanken will agreed with me.
  
  The unit cultre in Cdo is alittle different, men and officers work together for common objective. We are working in form of team. Therefore, very often, we dun salute, buit we pay due respect to their rank.
  
  Must understand this point, your platoon mate started BMT together with you, but when their are back from OCS course, it is like old friends liao. Very different from infantry unit deployment.
  
  

  I agreed that each unit culture is different. In my unit, we don't salute our officers as well. We gave them respect when and where it is due. Saluting of any officers are performed during guard duty, eg. when the CO and staff officers coming through the gate or during parade. At company line, we don't salute our officers at all. It is not that we don't respect their rank, but rather we see them as a fellow trooper after going through the same trade course and so we treat them like a buddy. All these, bearing in mind that my unit is an infantry unit. Hence while the unit are different, this form of respect given to the officer is rather similar and from my own experience, I know it is not only prevalent in CDO unit only. Some of our officers are actually specialists who did well in the trade course who went on the OCS for conversion and came back as our PCs. So the general statement of "different from infantry unit deployment" probably does not hold water here.
• DriftingGuy

  2 Nov 05, 10:48

  Hey same in my unit ub the past as well... due respect is given when needed... But i do salute someone who has 2 crabs and above
• LazerLordz

  2 Nov 05, 11:05

  Sama sama, all of us are Military Engineers..be it Enlisted,Spec or Officer.Get the job done first..that's what should be the case.Salutes are normally done on the parade ground.
• nanren4ever

  2 Nov 05, 23:09

  Originally posted by fudgester:

  Still, when you see an officer, you should still salute. You don't have to like it; you just have to do it.
  
  Unless you want to get sh*t being thrown back at you.

  I always remember this quote from Band of brothers:
  'You salute the rank, not the man'