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From: dth@shark.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower)
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Subject: Re: Army customs...saluting
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.014425.17463@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:44:25 GMT
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From: dth@shark.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower)

In article <1991Mar8.023526.10578@cbnews.att.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:
>  [stuff deleted about the junior officer walking on the left]

That's also true for the US Military as well.  I served 4 years in the
Army, and I'm being commissioned into the Air Force in May; throughout all
my training it has always been taught that the junior person walks on the left 
of the senior.  The reasons given by Peter Cash are the traditional ones.


Dave
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