Why do our defence personnel people salute the Prime Miniser im sure this never used to take place . It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief  

years ago in the military we were taught to salute the uniform not the main so what's changed can someone help me

Working out at WHEN the saluting started would give the biggest clue...

My bet, Under Howards era..... :D

bwood1946 wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 5:08pm:

Why do our defence personnel people salute the Prime Miniser im sure this never used to take place . It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief   years ago in the military we were taught to salute the uniform not the main so what's changed can someone help me

I was taught it was to show respect.
If my father was introduced to someone at a function while in uniform, he would always salute and then shake hands with the person.

I like a good, crisp salute. The Nazis knew how to salute. I like that off-the-cuff, "from one officer to another" salute they used to do, very casual. I often use this to greet well wishers.

bwood1946 wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010 at 5:08pm:

It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief

In Australia the Governor-General is the Commander-in-Chief.

Melanias purse wrote on Jul 5^th, 2010 at 4:57pm:

I like a good, crisp salute. The Nazis knew how to salute. I like that off-the-cuff, "from one officer to another" salute they used to do, very casual. I often use this to greet well wishers.

I agree that the Fascist salute is excellent, as well as the more casual "heil five" that you mentioned. I think Nazi aesthetics were in general superb; they had incredibly cool emblems, uniforms and architecture**. Being Hitler must have been a lot of fun in all honesty. He was the Walt Disney of National Socialism.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welthauptstadt_Germania

One of my deepest fantasies is being the visionary in charge of a design force instructed on replanning the internal structure of the city of Canberra. Canberra is a hideous national capital with so much wasted potential; the principles employed there; zoning, sprawl, street hierachies, and bland, faceless architecture with buildings of prominence mostly serving as an exercise in egotism or money-saving for their creators and not to aesthetically enhance the urban space around them, almost all violate what I consider integral and ideal to the structuring of urban space. I would like to create something akin to Welthauptstadt Germania, and maybe even a whole new city that would serve as a point by point, detail by detail recreation of Speer and Hitler's  original plan for Berlin. It would be the National Socialist version of that Kevin Coster film Field of Dreams, where the spectre of Adolf Hitler would visit me on my farm and whisper to me softly that if I built it, they will come.

I do like the War Memorial, Old Parliament House and the American monument. I don't like New Parliament House but it's too much of a landmark to get rid of. The embassies are cute but tacky, like something you would see at Disney World and not a serious national capital.

I dream.

Lobo wrote on Jul 4^th, 2010 at 8:05pm:

bwood1946 wrote on Jul 2nd, 2010 at 5:08pm: Why do our defence personnel people salute the Prime Miniser im sure this never used to take place . It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief   years ago in the military we were taught to salute the uniform not the main so what's changed can someone help me I was taught it was to show respect. If my father was introduced to someone at a function while in uniform, he would always salute and then shake hands with the person.

if you're not wearing a uniform you stand to attention you don't salute

NorthOfNorth wrote on Jul 6^th, 2010 at 8:25am:

bwood1946 wrote on Jul 2nd, 2010 at 5:08pm: It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief   In Australia the Governor-General is the Commander-in-Chief.

. So why do we salute the  Prime Minister

bwood1946 wrote on Jul 10^th, 2010 at 1:09pm:

Lobo wrote on Jul 4th, 2010 at 8:05pm: bwood1946 wrote on Jul 2nd, 2010 at 5:08pm: Why do our defence personnel people salute the Prime Miniser im sure this never used to take place . It's very much an American thing because they call the president commanding chief We do not have a rin commandin g chief   years ago in the military we were taught to salute the uniform not the main so what's changed can someone help me I was taught it was to show respect. If my father was introduced to someone at a function while in uniform, he would always salute and then shake hands with the person. if you're not wearing a uniform you stand to attention you don't salute

If you weren't wearing a uniform you would probably just shake hands on being introduced.