1. FLAG HONORS D&C CHAPTER 2

2. HONORING THE FLAG ● REPRESENTS HERITAGE OF NATION ● SYMBOL OF AMERICA ● US FLAG & NATIONAL ANTHEM ● SYMBOLS OF OUR PEOPLE, LAND, AND INSTITUTIONS ● MOST CEREMONIES ARE WITH NATIONAL ANTHEM ● PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ● FLAG CEREMONY WITHOUT MUSIC NORMALLY CONDUCTED INDOORS

3. PROCEDURES FOR RENDERING PROPER COURTESIES ● IN UNIFORM IN FORMATION ● CALLED TO ATTENTION BY COMMANDER AND GIVEN “PRESENT ARMS” ● IN UNIFORM NOT IN FORMATION ● OUTDOORS, COME TO ATTENTION, FACE FLAG AND SALUTE ● IF FLAG IS NOT VISIBLE, FACE THE BAND/MUSIC AND SALUTE IN ITS DIRECTION. ● INDOORS, WHEN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, FACE THE FLAG (IF PRESENT) AND ASSUME THE POSITION OF ATTENTION ● IF NO FLAG IS PRESENT, ASSUME THE POSITION OF ATTENTION FACING THE MUSIC ● NO REQUIREMENT AT HOME/TV/RADIO ●DO NOT SALUTE INDOORS UNLESS UNDER ARMS

4. WHEN OUTDOORS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES STAND AT ATTENTION, FACE THE FLAG (IF THE FLAG IS NOT VISIBLE, FACE THE MUSIC) PLACE YOUR RIGHT HAND OVER HEART REMOVE HAT WITH THE RIGHT HAND AND HOLD IT AT THE LEFT SHOULDER WITH THE RIGHT HAND OVER HEART WHEN IN CIVILIAN CLOTHING INDOORS RENDER THE CIVILIAN SALUTE, STAND AT ATTENTION, PLACING RIGHT HAND OVER THE HEART

5. TO AN ESCORTED FLAG OUTDOORS AT A OUTDOOR EVENT, STAND AT ATTENTION, FACE THE FRONT, AND RENDER THE APPROPRIATE SALUTE (IN UNIFORM) SALUTE IS RENDERED APPROXIMATELY 6 PACES BEFORE THE FLAG IS EVEN WITH YOU AND HELD UNTIL THE FLAG HAS PASSED APPROXIMATELY SIX PACES BEYOND YOU ● STATIONARY FLAGSTAFF - A Flagstaff that does not move. Like the flagstaff used every morning for reveille. ● SALUTED ONLY AT REVEILLE, RETREAT, AND SPECIAL OCCASIONS ● DO NOT SALUTE: SMALL FLAGS FLAGS AT HALF STAFF CASED FLAGS FOLDED FLAGS

6. HALF STAFF ● FLOWN TO HONOR AND PAY RESPECT TO DECEASED PERSONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE. ● DECEASED CADETS MAY ALSO BE HONORED IN THE SAME MANNER DISRESPECT TO FLAG ● NEVER DIPPED IN SALUTE (COLOR GUARD DETAILS) ● NEVER DISPLAYED WITH UNION STARS DOWN ● DOES NOT TOUCH THE GROUND ● IF COVERING A CASKET, NOTHING IS PLACED ON TOP OF IT. DISPOSAL OF A U.S. FLAG: DESTROYED BY FIRST CUTTING THE BLUE FIELD (UNION) FROM THE STRIPES, THEN BURNING THE 2 PIECES SEPARATELY

7. REVEILLE ● SIGNIFIES THE START OF THE OFFICIAL DUTY/SCHOOL DAY. ● REVEILLE AND RETREAT PAY RESPECT TO THE FLAG. ● COURTESY IS RENDERED TO SALUTE THE FLAG WHEN RAISED OR LOWERED. DISPLAYING THE FLAG ● Refer to page A-2(next slide) for correct ways to display the flag

8. DISPLAYING THE FLAG (CONT.)

9. FOLDING THE FLAG

10. ● Flag Detail ● Morning - You will have a letter signed by an instructor to justify getting to class late ● Afternoon - same as above; leave class 10 minutes early ● Raise and Lower flag with honor ● Morning Detail ● Assemble ● Get flags from office ● Fall in and approach flagstaff ● Ceremoniously unfold the flags ● Loosen halyards from hook and place flag on halyards ● On the first note of the National Anthem, raise flag slowly (other members of party will salute, release salute on last note) ● March back to school and immediately go back to class

11. ● Afternoon Detail ● Form up and march to flagstaff ● Release halyards from hooks and lower slowly. ● Fold flags ceremoniously ● Present to commander of detail ● March back to school and return flags to office