{"id":31481,"date":"2015-05-14T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:20:43","slug":"army-article-documents-silver-dollar-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/army-article-documents-silver-dollar-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Article Documents &#8220;Silver Dollar Salute&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/dollarsalute.jpg\" alt=\"First Salute Tradition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Army article covering the commissioning of Clemson University ROTC graduates noted that their ceremony ended with a &#8220;Silver Dollar Salute ceremony&#8221;, encapsulating a tradition involving a young officer&#8217;s first salute: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Following their commissioning, the new lieutenants participated in a Silver Dollar Salute ceremony on Military Heritage Plaza. This ceremony marks the first salute received by the new officer from an enlisted member. As a sign of mutual respect, the officer presents the enlisted member with a silver dollar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the photo above,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Army 2nd Lt. James R. Jolly III (right) receives his first salute as an officer from Sgt. 1st Class Jason Bielski, who is a cadre member of Clemson University\u2019s Reserve Officer Training Corps&#8230;(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ken Scar)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not uncommon for new officers to &#8220;reserve&#8221; their first salute to honor the enlisted personnel who were pivotal to their commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>This tradition continues in the other services, and is but one of many\u00a0service, and fighter pilot traditions in the military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army article covering the commissioning of Clemson University ROTC graduates noted that their ceremony ended with a &#8220;Silver Dollar Salute ceremony&#8221;, encapsulating a tradition involving a young officer&#8217;s first salute:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,1049,5285,2,767,560,40],"class_list":["post-31481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-army","tag-clemson-university","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-rotc","tag-silver-dollar","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}