DAILY SERVICE. 370. There will be daily at least two roll calls, viz, at reveille and retreat. Commanding officers may also order roll calls in special cases at such times as they deem necessary. The roll will be called on the company parade by the first sergeant, superintended by a commissioned officer. If companies are quartered together or in contiguous barracks, one officer may superintend the roll call of two or more of them, provided he can do so efficiently, commanding officers regulating the practice in this regard. Ordinarily there will not be any formation for roll call at tattoo, but the prescribed signal will be sounded, and fifteen minutes thereafter lights in squad rooms will be extinguished and all noises and loud talking will cease. Call to quarters will be sounded at 10.45 p. m., and taps at 11. At taps all lights not authorized by the commanding officer will be extinguished. Reveille roll call in garrison will not ordinarily take place earlier than 5.30 a. m. in summer, or 6.30 a. m. in winter. On Sundays and holidays the time may be fixed one hour later. 371. Mess call in garrison will be sounded daily as follows: For breakfast, thirty minutes after reveille roll call; for dinner, not earlier than 12 m. nor later than 12.15 p. m.; for supper, not earlier than 5 nor later than 6.30 p. m. Meals for enlisted men will be served promptly at the hours appointed, and the duties of the post, as far as compatible with the requirements of the service, will be so arranged that all the men may be present. The men will be allowed at least twenty minutes for breakfast and supper and thirty minutes for dinner. 372. Except at the ceremony of parade, the result of a roll call will be reported after the companies have been dismissed to the officer superintending the call, who will report the result to the commanding officer. 373. In camp and garrison the commanding officer fixes the hours for reports, issues, and roll calls, and for the performance of stated duties and fatigues. In garrison, retreat will be not later than sunset. The signals will be sounded by the field musicians in accordance with authorized drill regulations. 374. After breakfast, and after stable duty in the mounted service, the tents or quarters and adjacent ground will be policed by the men of the companies and the guardhouse or guard tent by the prisoners, or by members of the guard if there be no prisoners. ARTICLE XL. HONORS, COURTESIES, AND CEREMONIES. HONORS. 375. The President and the Vice President will be received with regimental standards or colors dropping, officers and troops saluting, and the bands playing "The Star Spangled Banner," or, in the absence of a band, the field music or bugles sounding "to the color." Officers of the following grades of rank will be received with regimental standards or colors dropping, officers and troops saluting, and the bands and field music playing, as follows: The General, the General's March; the Lieutenant General, trumpets sounding 3 flourishes or drums beating 3 ruffles; a major general, 2 flourishes or 2 ruffles; a brigadier general, 1 flourish or 1 ruffle. 376. To the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, American or foreign ambassadors, and governors within their respective States and Terr tories the same honors are paid as to the General, except that a foreign ambassador will be received with the national air of his country, and that the number of guns fired as personal salutes will be as prescribed in paragraph 400; to the Assistant Secretary of War and to American or foreign envoys or ministers the same honors as to the Lieutenant General; to officers of the Navy the honors due to their relative rank; to officers of marines and volunteers, and militia when in the service of the United States, the honors due to like grades in the regular service; to officers of a foreign service the honors due to their rank. 377. The national or regimental color or standard, uncased, passing a guard or other armed body will be saluted, the field music sounding "to the color" or "to the standard." Officers or enlisted men passing the uncased color will render the prescribed salute; with no arms in hand, the salute will be the hand salute, using the right hand, the headdress not to be removed. 378. Whenever "The Star Spangled Banner" is played at a military station, or at any place where persons belonging to the military service are present in their official capacity or present unofficially but in uniform, all officers and enlisted men present will stand at attention, facing toward the music, retaining that position until the last note of the air, and then salute. With no arms in hand the salute will be the hand salute. The same respect will be observed toward the national air of any other country, when it is played as a compliment to official representatives of such country. When played under the circumstances contemplated by this paragraph, "The Star Spangled Banner" will be played through without repetition of any part that is not required to be repeated to make the air complete. 379. No honors are paid by troops when on the march or in trenches, except that they may be called to attention, and no salute is rendered when marching in double time or at the trot or gallop. 380. The commanding officer is saluted by all commissioned officers in command of troops or detachments. Troops under arms will salute as prescribed in drill regulations. 381. When making or receiving official reports all officers will salute, if covered; if uncovered, they stand at attention. When under arms, the salute is made with the sword or saber, if drawn, otherwise with the hand. On meeting, all officers salute when covered; when uncovered, they exchange the courtesies observed between gentlemen. Military courtesy requires the junior to salute first, but when the salute is introductory to a report made at a military ceremony or formation to the representative of a common superior-as, for example, to the adjutant, officer of the day, etc.-the officer making the report, whatever his rank, will salute first; the officer to whom the report is made will acknowledge, by saluting, if covered, or verbally, if uncovered, that he has received and understood the report. 382. Uncovering is not a form of the prescribed salute, and the hand salute is executed only when covered. 383. When an enlisted man with no arms in hand passes an officer he salutes with the right hand. Officers are saluted whether in uniform or not. 384. An enlisted man, armed with the saber and out of ranks, salutes all officers with the saber if drawn; otherwise he salutes with the hand. If on foot and armed with a rifle or carbine, he makes the rifle or carbine salute. A mounted soldier dismounts before addressing an officer not mounted. 385. A noncommissioned officer or private in command of a detachment without arms salutes all officers with the hand, but if the detachment be on foot and armed with the rifle or carbine, he makes the rifle or carbine salute, and if armed with a saber he salutes with it. 386. An enlisted man, if seated, rises on the approach of an officer, faces toward him, and, if covered, salutes; if uncovered, he stands at attention. Standing, he faces an officer for the same purpose. If the parties remain in the same place or on the same ground, such compliments need not be repeated. Soldiers actually at work do not cease work to salute an officer unless addressed by him. 387. Before addressing an officer, an enlisted man makes the prescribed salute with the weapon with which he is aimed, or, if unarmed and covered, with the right hand. He also makes the same salute after receiving a reply. . If uncovered, he stands at attention without saluting. 388. Indoors, except as provided in paragraph 392, an unarmed enlisted man uncovers and stands at attention upon the approach of an officer. If armed, he salutes as heretofore prescribed. 389. When an officer enters a room where there are soldiers, the word "Attention" is given by some one who perceives him, when all rise and remain standing in the position of a soldier until the officer leaves the room. Soldiers at meals do not rise. 390. Soldiers at all times and in all situations pay the same compliments to officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and volunteers, and to officers of the Organized Militia in uniform as to officers of their own regiment, corps, or arm of service. 391. Officers will at all times acknowledge the courtesies of enlisted men by returning, in the manner prescribed, the salutes given. When several officers in company are saluted, all return it. 392. On all occasions outdoors, and also in public places, such as stores, theaters, railway and steamboat stations, and the like, the salute to any person whatever by officers and enlisted men in uniform, with no arms in hand, whether on or off duty, shall be the hand salute, the right hand being used, the headdress not to be removed. SALUTES WITH CANNON. 393. Salutes with cannon will be fired under charge of commissioned officers, who shall be present at the firing and direct it. Guns using metallic-case ammunition will be used whenever practicable; in their absence other breech-loading guns should preferably be used. Muzzleloaders will be used only when breechloaders are not available. When using muzzle-loading guns a sufficient number should be employed, if practicable, to avoid the necessity of firing the same gun a second time. For muzzle-loading guns, or breechloaders using cartridge bags, the bags will be made of silk, measuring in length at least one and one-half times their diameter, and care will be taken that the sponges are not worn and that they thoroughly fill the chamber or bore of the gun, and when the same gun is fired more than once, that the intervals between the discharges are sufficient to allow the chamber or bore to be thoroughly sponged and chamber of breechloaders examined. Unless all of these conditions be fulfilled salutes will not be fired with these classes of guns. The minimum number of pieces with which salutes may be fired is 1 for rapid-fire and field guns using metallic-case ammunition, 2 for breechloaders using cartridge bags, 4 for siege, and 6 for seacoast guns. When practicable, rapid-fire guns will be used for saluting purposes. 394. The rapidity with which pieces are discharged during a salute depends upon their caliber. Subject to the restrictions of the preceding paragraph, guns of 4-inch caliber or less should have intervals of 5 seconds between discharges; guns of over 4-inch caliber, 10 seconds. When a single field gun is used to fire a salute the interval between discharges should be 10 seconds. 395. When muzzle-loading guns are used, the pieces for a salute should, if possible, be of the same or equivalent caliber. If the number of guns in the saluting battery admits of it, the entire number required and two or three over should be loaded and made ready previous to commencing the salute; the detachments are then dispensed with, and a single cannoneer at each piece discharges it at the proper time. When the number of pieces is insufficient for the entire salute, as many as possible should be used so as to avoid frequent reloadings. The pieces are numbered from right to left-1, 2, 3, and so on-and each detachment or the cannoneer, as the case may be, is made clearly to understand the number of the piece. At the proper moment the officer in charge commands: "Number 1, fire!" and observing the proper interval, "Number 2, fire!" and so on to the left piece, when he returns to the first and repeats the same commands until the entire number required for the salute is discharged. In order to preserve regularity in the fires he will not concern himself with the running number, but will have a capable person to keep count and notify him when the required number of discharges is made. In giving the command “ In giving the command " Fire!" he looks toward the piece to be fired, and gives it in such a pronounced manner, accompanied by a signal with his sword, as to be unmistakable. The cannoneer discharging a piece when its number is called casts his eye to the officer and, observing the signal as well as the command, fires the piece promptly. Should a piece misfire, the officer immediately commands the next to fire and allows the piece that has missed to remain undischarged until its proper turn comes again. Immediately after each piece is discharged it is reloaded and made ready if there is probability of its being fired again. When troops are drawn up for the reception of a dignitary, and it is practicable to have a battery of field guns on the ground, a salute from it should form part of the ceremony; otherwise guns in position are used. When field guns are used, it is most appropriate to fire the salute at the place of review, and at the time just previous to the review when the personage arrives on the ground. 396. Salvos are simultaneous discharges from several cannon; they correspond to volleys of musketry and are fired by way of salute only over the graves of officers at the time of burial. The order designating a funeral escort prescribes whether the fire shall be three volleys of musketry or three salvos of artillery. 397. Salutes will not be fired between sunset and sunrise, and not on Sunday unless required by international courtesy. As a general rule, salutes will be fired between 8 a. m. and sunset. The national flag will always be displayed at the time of firing a salute. NATIONAL SALUTES. 398. The national salute is 21 guns. It is also the salute to a national flag. The salute to the Union, commemorative of the Declaration of Independence and consisting of 1 gun for each State, is fired at noon on July 4 at every post provided with suitable artillery. 399. It is the custom of foreign ships of war, on entering a harbor or passing near a fortification, to display at the main the flag of the country in whose 2402°-13-6 waters they are, and to salute it. It is the rule, however, in our own and foreign navies to fire salutes only between 8 a. m. and sunset. of the salute to the flag, a salute of the same number of guns will be promptly On the completion returned by the designated saluting station. United States vessels return salutes to the flag in United States waters only when there is no fort or battery designated to do so. United States vessels do not salute United States forts or posts, and the converse. Saluting stations for the purpose of returning the salutes of foreign men-ofwar in the ports and territorial waters of the United States will be designated in orders from time to time by the War Department. The salute to the flag is the only salute that is returned, and this is invariably done as soon as possible. The time intervening should never exceed 24 hours. The failure to return such salutes is regarded as a discourtesy or lack of friendship justifying the other party in asking an explanation. Notice of an intention to salute the flag is sometimes given by the vessel. direct to the fort, but as giving notice involves delay, vessels generally salute without it. Surveying vessels, storeships, and transports do not salute. If notice of intention to salute the flag be received by a fort not the saluting station, such fort immediately notifies the saluting station and informs the vessel of the fact. PERSONAL SALUTES. 400. The President, both on his arrival at and departure from a military post, or when in its vicinity, receives a salute of 21 guns. salute is fired in his presence. No other personal The sovereign or chief magistrate of a foreign country receives the salute prescribed for the President; and members of a royal family receive the salute due their sovereign. No salute to a personage of lesser degree shall be fired in their official presence. An ex-President of the United States receives a salute of 21 guns. When officials other than those named visit military posts, they receive salutes as follows: Ambassadors, members of the Cabinet, and the president pro tempore of the Senate The Chief Justice, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a committee of Congress officially visiting a military post, governors within their respective States or Territories, or a governor general, and the civil governor of the Philippine Islands_. Guns. 19 The Assistant Secretary of War or the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 17 15 Chargés d'affaires__ Consuls general accredited to the United States_ The General The Lieutenant General___ Major general Brigadier general 66 The term governor general" shall be taken to mean an administrative officer under whom officers with the title of governor are acting. 401. As a rule, a personal salute is to be fired when the personage entitled to it enters a post. 13 11 11 17 15 13 11 |