Reply #16: Gun salute protocol [View All]

[jmowreader]

This is for all situations where gun salutes are fired.

A president, including a deceased one, receives 21 guns upon arriving and departing an area. The manual doesn't cover situations where more than one president is in attendance; my bet is everyone's saluted by the same 21 guns. (If they had to salute Carter, Clinton, Bush the Elder, Monkeyboy and Reagan individually, they'd call it a barrage.)

A vice president receives 19 guns upon arrival, no guns at departure.

At 5pm today, all military installations that have cannon will fire 50 guns.

Hence...he got 21 guns when he left California, 21 guns when arriving at Andrews, 21 when leaving for the Capitol, 21 at his arrival at the Capital, another 21 on his departure, another 21 when he returned to Andrews, still ANOTHER 21 when his plane departed Andrews, another 21 when he returned to California...I think you get the idea.

They didn't fire that many rounds in the Siege on Fallujah.