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For funerals for an enlisted non-commissioned officer of E-9 rank and officers, the casket is transported via a horse-drawn limbers and caissons. For all other funerals, the casket is transported using a hearse. Fighter jets in missing man formation by the United States Air Force may perform an aerial flyover.
This combination of photos provided by Shawn Sanders, left, and the U.S. Army, center and right, show from left to right, Sgt. Kennedy Sanders, Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers and Sgt. Breonna ...
Today, there are so few buglers available that the United States Armed Forces often cannot provide one. [14] However, federal law allows Reserve and National Guard units to assist with funeral honors duty when necessary. On the day of the burial or interment, the U.S. Flag is lowered to half-staff.
It is customary, and prescribed by military regulation, for all U.S. Army posts equipped with artillery to mark the official conclusion of the state funeral by firing the "Salute to the Union"—50 successive rounds of artillery fire—upon notification that burial has concluded. [88] Carter was interred at 8:06pm, Plains time.
The flag-draped casket of Staff Sgt. William Jerome Rivers stood at the front of a church Tuesday as Georgia's governor joined the Army Reserve soldier's family, uniformed military officers and ...
Two young citizen-soldiers who became close friends after enlisting in the Army Reserve were remembered at funerals in southeast Georgia on Saturday, nearly three weeks after they died in a drone ...
The District of Columbia Army National Guard Honor Guard is the Army National Guard's official Honor Guard program for the District of Columbia. The mission of the DCARNG Honor Guard is to provide military funeral honors (MFH) [1] to qualifying veterans and participate in ceremonial and special events. Based on the mission and support needed ...
Michelle Ray, 70, of West Jefferson, lost her husband Tom in December. He was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam and had military funeral honors performed by the Hilliard VFW Post Honor ...