"If it moves, salute it."

[Jonathan Lighter]

J. Douglas Harvey - who noted the Massatwoshits incident in WWII - also recalled that the above proverb was current in the Royal Canadian Air Force at that time:

  1981 J. D. Harvey _Boys, Bombs, and Brussels Sprouts_ (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart) 25: Learning to salute was taught each and every day....The instructors...never bothered to tell us _who_ to salute....Always in doubt, we adhered to the age-old military dictum: 'If you see something, salute it. If it doesn't salute back, pick it up. If you can't pick it up, paint it."

  (Noncommissioned officers and enlisted persons do not exchange salutes.)

  JL


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