There was something really odd about Biden’s salute. The cadence was off compared to the shots fired at other presidents’ inaugurations. See the video below for a compilation of inauguration volleys for Carter through Biden.
The cadence and arrangement for Biden doesn’t seem like either an inaugural 21 gun salute or a funeral salute.
And why did the salute take place at the cemetery? I don’t think this occurred when any other president got his salute.
That is just plain weird.
I don’t know exactly what it going on other than a lot of odd things that don’t add up
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I just realized I forgot to post the link to the video I referenced when I first posted this post.
Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94O1pSJtauE
12 mins. of different presidents’ inaugurations.
In reference to my last post, you can hear some of the cannon fires in the background to the video. It clear sounds as if they are three seconds apart versus the nine seconds part that Joe got.
9 x 21 = 189 189 divided by 60 (seconds) = 3.15 minutes.
3.15 Ides of March?
Maybe I counted the Biden salute wrong. Maybe it was ten seconds apart, not nine. Isn’t ten seconds the interval for a foreign dignitary?
***The cadence and arrangement for Biden doesn’t seem like either an inaugural 21 gun salute or a funeral salute.
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According to AR 600-25, Chapter 3-3 the cadence for a cannon salute is as follows:
(6)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.
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(2) The firing of a salute will begin at the time the person entitled to it enters the installation.
However, as noted in the Arlington National Cemetery Blog: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Blog/Post/12870/Presidential-Salute-Battery-Honors-Dignitaries-and-Events
“For a visit from a dignitary such as President Lasso (President of Ecuador), a communications representative in the lead vehicle radios Capt. Nathan Lundquist, the battery officer in charge, as the vehicle passes by McClellan Gate. That starts the firing sequence. “We found through trial and error,” explained Lundquist, “that nine seconds is the interval spacing that gets the last round fired as they get to the Tomb.””
Hope this helps to clear up at least part of the situation.
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That is just plain weird..
good catch!!!
Great dig on inaugurals salutes! ThankQ for refreshing my memory.