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Again, welcome! Aboutmovies (talk) 06:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Precedence of U.S. Armed Forces

In reference to the Military of the United States article, there is a precedence of order to displaying the service branches and service academies of the United States. This general rule also applies when marching (i.e., the Presidential inaguration) or listing the service branches of the United States. The reason behind the order is based on the date in which the organizations came into being as far as the service branches and service academices respectively. The Army being the oldest service branch and the Air Force being the youngest. The U.S. Coast Guard has always been the last service branch to be listed, I'm not sure of the exact reasoning behind this but it just is. This regulation can be found at AR 840-10, 1 November 1998 2–5. Order of precedence of flags The following is the order of precedence of flags:

e . Military organizational flags of the Services in order of precedence
(1) Cadets, United States Military Academy
(2) Midshipmen, United States Naval Academy
(3) Cadets, United States Air Force Academy
(4) Cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy
(5) Midshipmen, United States Merchant Marine Academy
(6) United States Army
(7) United States Marine Corps
(8) United States Navy
(9) United States Air Force
(10) United States Coast Guard
(11) Army National Guard of the United States
(12) Army Reserve
(13) Marine Corps Reserve
(14) Naval Reserve
(15) Air National Guard of the United States
(16) Air Force Reserve
(17) Coast Guard Reserve
(18) Other training organizations of the Army, Marine Corps,
Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard, in that order, respectively.

-Signaleer (talk) 12:41, 11 June 2008 (UTC)