USAF.Boom
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It's simple...salute everyone. They either need to salute you or you need to salute them.
Seriously though, for officers in khakis, their piss cutter (looks like air force hat but khaki) will have some device on each side of it. Elnisted only has something on one side. If they are in black and khaki uniforms (E1-E6) they salute you, if they look like you do then you salute them...except chiefs. But they will look like you but with noticeable differences. Where you have an eagle on you big freaking round cover, they have an anchor. They do not wear shoulder boards. On dress uniforms they still have stripes. And really this should only take you about 20 - 30 minutes once you get drilling to truely figure out. If not, you may be in a hurt your entire career, this is the easy stuff. You still have to learn about, Mass, OPR's, EPR's, marching, writting letters the "proper" Navy way, etc......oh, and your actual job.
Saluting is so overrated, and you will get real tired of it...quickly. Especially when you are trying to have a conversation with someone and you keep having to salute someone back. All my firends always bitched about that. We just had an agreement that off base we just never saluted each other, unless someone important was around. Hell, we never wore our covers anywhere off base outside of 30 miles.
If you really want to learn all that you can before hand, go here http://www.npc.navy.mil/CommandSupport/USNavyUniforms/UniformRegulations/ and study the finer points of the officer AND enlisted uniforms, remember that you need to know their regulations as well. You are their boss, well sort of. Chiefs are really their boss and yours too! Never piss off a chief! Good way to limit your career.
Seriously though, for officers in khakis, their piss cutter (looks like air force hat but khaki) will have some device on each side of it. Elnisted only has something on one side. If they are in black and khaki uniforms (E1-E6) they salute you, if they look like you do then you salute them...except chiefs. But they will look like you but with noticeable differences. Where you have an eagle on you big freaking round cover, they have an anchor. They do not wear shoulder boards. On dress uniforms they still have stripes. And really this should only take you about 20 - 30 minutes once you get drilling to truely figure out. If not, you may be in a hurt your entire career, this is the easy stuff. You still have to learn about, Mass, OPR's, EPR's, marching, writting letters the "proper" Navy way, etc......oh, and your actual job.
Saluting is so overrated, and you will get real tired of it...quickly. Especially when you are trying to have a conversation with someone and you keep having to salute someone back. All my firends always bitched about that. We just had an agreement that off base we just never saluted each other, unless someone important was around. Hell, we never wore our covers anywhere off base outside of 30 miles.
If you really want to learn all that you can before hand, go here http://www.npc.navy.mil/CommandSupport/USNavyUniforms/UniformRegulations/ and study the finer points of the officer AND enlisted uniforms, remember that you need to know their regulations as well. You are their boss, well sort of. Chiefs are really their boss and yours too! Never piss off a chief! Good way to limit your career.
Good stuff!