I don't know if any of the other mids here have spent any time around an area where it is a primarily training command, but those places they salute you all the time. It is sort of awkward. I was in Pensacola for a week doing pre-aviation cruise stuff, and the enlisted aircrewman students there were eager to salute anything that had any semblance of an officer. We were in flight suits with no insignia, and there would be Marines saluting us from what literally seemed like 100 yards away. I never got so many confused faces when they walked past and got a look at the insignia on our cover.