God Speed . . .

Special..

That's called a Patriot Walk. Did it was while in Iraq. It was a very sad and sobering experience. Couldn't do it again.

^

Patriot walk = carrying the casket/being a pallbearer?

Or is it standing and saluting the fallen in honor of their sacrifice?

Amazing that dubya didn't want all these pics released.

^Standing and saluting. Honor Guard usually carries the casket.

It's also all volunteers

WOW... great pic... I was OIC of the detail in Bahrain that shipped the 37 sailors that were killed on USS STARK (by an Iraqi missile) back to the US in 1987. Had to research the protocol and train the honor guard. Very sobering experience... I will never forget it. I still have the copy of TIME that I was in for that....

There is a special protocol for the direction in which you load the casket onto the plane... I believe that everyone but a chaplain is carried feet first. Chaplains, however, enter the plane head first.

God Bless America... but particulary those who have died for our country and those they left behind.

Photo Courtesy of James Gordon . . .

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesdale10/ 

thank you

"God Bless America... but particulary those who have died for our country and those they left behind. "

Amen

Thank you for posting this Jet.