{"id":299782,"date":"2021-03-24T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=299782"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:30:53","slug":"kamala-harris-breaks-precedent-skips-saluting-military-before-boarding-air-force-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-breaks-precedent-skips-saluting-military-before-boarding-air-force-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Breaks Precedent, Skips Saluting Military Before Boarding Air Force Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-breaks-precedent-skips-saluting-military-before-boarding-air-force-two%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=299782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3150.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has broken a tradition maintained by at least the last two of her predecessors and skipped saluting military guards before boarding Air Force Two.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was captured on video Monday walking past servicemen without saluting before boarding the jet. Former Vice Presidents Mike Pence and Joe Biden each maintained the practice of saluting servicemen before boarding and after exiting the plane during their tenures, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/vp-kamala-harris-salute-air-force-two-military\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDISGRACEFUL: @VP Kamala Harris refuses to salute the honor guard at the steps of the aircraft. It is a clear demonstration of her dislike for those in uniform, both law-enforcement and military,\u201d former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik wrote in a caption of the video posted to Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.2610294117647\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DISGRACEFUL: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a> Kamala Harris refuses to salute the honor guard at the steps of the aircraft. It is a clear demonstration of her dislike for those in uniform, both law-enforcement and military. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7QFHzamnt7\">pic.twitter.com\/7QFHzamnt7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernardKerik\/status\/1374181239423430658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The incident appears not to be a one-off as Fox News has reported that Harris has declined to salute her military guards on at least three other occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideo reviewed by Fox News showed that Harris did not salute the honor guard on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gD5FaiA1D5M\">Monday<\/a>&nbsp;nor during earlier trips on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oy68g7vo-ns\">March 15<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k_M3Cvvaulk\">16<\/a>. She did not appear to salute when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=69ra_PSTelo\">disembarking<\/a>&nbsp;Air Force One with Biden on March 19 either,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>As vice president, Harris is not in the chain of military command, unlike the president, and is not required to salute, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/fox-news-kamala-harris-salute_n_605b1635c5b65d1c281127ae\">The Huffington Post<\/a>. Neither is the president, though every president since former President Ronald Reagan has maintained the regular practice of saluting military members since 1981. Reagan later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/obama-salute-marine-one-video\/\">explained<\/a> how he began the practice in remarks to U.S. servicemembers in Iceland:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28\">\n<p><em>I can\u2019t resist telling you a little story that I\u2019ve just told the marine guard at the Embassy. The story has to do with saluting. I was a second lieutenant of horse cavalry back in the World War II days. As I told the admiral, I wound up flying a desk for the Army Air Force. And so, I know all the rules about not saluting in civilian clothes and so forth, and when you should or shouldn\u2019t. But then when I got this job \u2014 [laughter] \u2014 and I would be approaching Air Force One or Marine One and those marines would come to a salute and I \u2014 knowing that I am in civilian clothes \u2014 I would nod and say hello and think they could drop their hand, and they wouldn\u2019t. They just stood there. So, one night over at the Commandant\u2019s quarters, Marine Commandant\u2019s quarters in Washington, and I was getting a couple of highballs, and I didn\u2019t \u2014 [laughter] \u2014 know what to do with them. So, I said to the Commandant \u2014 I said, \u201cLook, I know all the rules about saluting in civilian clothes and all, but if I am the Commander in Chief, there ought to be a regulation that would permit me to return a salute.\u201d And I heard some words of wisdom. He said, \u201cI think if you did, no one would say anything.\u201d [Laughter]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So, if you see me on television and I\u2019m saluting, you know that I\u2019ve got authority for it now \u2014 [laughter] \u2014 and I do it happily.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has broken a tradition maintained by at least the last two of her predecessors and skipped saluting military guards before boarding Air Force Two.Harris was captured &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311056,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3150.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala Harris Breaks Precedent, Skips Saluting Military Before Boarding Air Force Two","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3150.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Kamala Harris Breaks Precedent, Skips Saluting Military Before Boarding Air Force Two","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}