O7 or <O? How do YOU salute?

[Avvie Rayne]

The ultimate discussion!

I prefer <O because it more closely resembles an actual salute. O7 looks like I'm trying to block out the sun so I can see. XD

Or "You must be THIS high to ride this ride!"

<O

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Neither.

o7

 

[Darth Ender]

I salute with pulse lasers.

 

[TWitko]

O7 mostly, but fully agree it should be <O instead (as O7 is simply wrong side/or hand salute)...

TW

 

[Darty]

O
V

 

[S3B4ST13N]

How do I salute?


ㄥo

 

[CMDR Redcrest]

O7 mostly, but fully agree it should be <O instead (as O7 is simply wrong side/or hand salute)...

TW

I prefer o7. While a right handed salute is, I presume, correct in western military etiquette a left handed one says 'we're not the military and how do ya do' all in two characters.

O
V

Haha! Well done!

 

[TWitko]

I prefer o7. While a right handed salute is, I presume, correct in western military etiquette a left handed one says 'we're not the military and how do ya do' all in two characters.

great idea ... have never thought of it in this way .. military/ non military ...

TW

 

[popuptoaster]

I don't salute anyone, I'm in the pilots federation not the navy.

 

[Rubbernuke]

I sort of squiggly dad- dance

o7

o>

<o

--o

~o/

 

[Hell Razor5543]

o7, unless I just completed a difficult mission, and then it is oo7!

 

[Fyrd Judge]

The official salute in Elite Dangerous

 

[LeoBartlet]

I don't

 

[Arkadi]

I'll salute like this:

-_-*,,|,


thx, I left Navy for good.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

I'll salute like this:

-_-*,,|,


thx, I left Navy for good.

o7

/el8char

 

[fitzsteve]

I salute with pulse lasers.

Surely Frag Cannon's is more appropriate?

 

[damon8r351]

When I was in boot camp, we were taught a proper military salute was where your upper right (not left) arm was straight out from the shoulder (not pitched forward) and it was parallel to the ground (not pitched downward), with your hand flat touch the middle finger to where the bill of your hat joins to the hat with your palm tilted a little toward you, then drop your hand back down to your side. However, pilots, especially US Navy pilots, are notorious for their screwed up salutes, so O7 is close enough. <O is too much of a culture change.

 

[Julio Montega]

I generally salute with a friendly:
"Not your lucky day, submit to interdiction,
stop your ship and comply for a scan.
Do not comply and face the consequences."

But apart from that a "<0>" relaxxed is generally my fav.

 

[S3B4ST13N]

When I was in boot camp, we were taught a proper military salute was where your upper right (not left) arm was straight out from the shoulder (not pitched forward) and it was parallel to the ground (not pitched downward), with your hand flat touch the middle finger to where the bill of your hat joins to the hat with your palm tilted a little toward you, then drop your hand back down to your side. However, pilots, especially US Navy pilots, are notorious for their screwed up salutes, so O7 is close enough. <O is too much of a culture change.

Instructions Unclear, got stuck in elevator shaft.


"with your hand flat touch the middle finger to where the bill of your hat joins to the hat with your palm tilted a little toward you" - this bit threw me xD

 

[damon8r351]

Instructions Unclear, got stuck in elevator shaft.


"with your hand flat touch the middle finger to where the bill of your hat joins to the hat with your palm tilted a little toward you" - this bit threw me xD

Flatten your hand out, make sure all the fingers and thumb are together like you're fixing to karate chop something. Then look at it: what's your longest finger? That's the part of the hand that touches your hat (or cover as we call it).

That's not to say I haven't secretly wanted to salute with a stiff middle finger every time an officer who just started middle school when I enlisted insists on me addressing him as "sir".