***What is your assessment of the gun salute at Pedo’s “inauguration”?
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IIRC, there was some question about the firing salute during the inauguration - stuff like the location of the firing battery, the number of shots fired, etc. The thought at the time was that they were firing a “funeral salute” rather than a Presidential salute (I think that supposedly they only fired 19 times instead of 21).
Army regs don’t have any reference to number of cannon shots for a funeral. Only reference that I could find is below:
Army Regulation 600-25
Chapter 3, Paragraph 3
b. Cannon salutes to persons.
(1) The time interval between rounds in a cannon salute will be three seconds except as follows:
(a) When honors are rendered at funerals, in which case the cannon salute will be fired at five second intervals.
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN20654_R600_25_Admin_FINAL.pdf
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Thanks for your thoughts.
thanx for that.
I was way off regarding funeral salutes being just rifles. Reading Chapter 7 deals with deaths and funerals.