News Files:Saluting
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Starfleet has pretty much done away with the martial tradition of the salute. Starfleet officers don't salute each other except in the most formal and solemn of situations -- such as saluting the casket of a valued officer just as he is about to be launched into space at his funeral. Starfleet officers are permitted to salute Allied officers whose home services keep the tradition of a salute, but in most cases, this is a courtesy and not a requirement.
For other forms of respect -- rising and coming to attention when the Captain or a flag officer enters a duty area -- the local chain of command will have specific rules in SOP for this sort of thing.
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