Always remember what we're fighting for!

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every time they salute each other

That’s how you know for sure it’s fake. Soldiers in training don’t salute each other. They only salute officers.

You can be training for an invasion without being in basic training, or are we to assume there are no continuous improvement efforts in the military?

Who said anything about basic training?

Soldiers don’t go around saluting each other, no matter what stage of training they’re in.

Deployed in the field, no. In garrison, yes.

Soldiers salute comissioned officers regularly, except in very specific circumstances.

Soldiers salute non-commissioned officers (enlisted with rank sergeant and above) very rarely in very specific circumstances.

Soldiers (enlisted below the rank of sergeant) never salute each other except maybe as a joke. It’s just not a thing.

Soldiers (enlisted below the rank of sergeant) never salute each other except maybe as a joke.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. The claim is that soldiers are jokingly saluting each other in honor of the Epstein class. I find it inconceivable that there aren’t groups of corporals jokingly saluting each other over the Epstein/Israel/Trump situation, especially after headlines like these came out. I find it incredibly hard to image they aren’t jokingly saluting like-minded NCOs as well. And surely, there are some lieutenants telling them all to knock of off.

The guy I was originally responding to seems to have a nothing-ever-happens mentality, and I couldn’t disagree more.

Halfway Post is also a satire sure like The Onion.
For sure, and this headline has been circulating for weeks. If no soldiers were jokingly saluting about the obvious military manipulation by the Epstein-class before, then some have surely been inspired by this satirical post.