Are you sure you served in the military? As long as I can remember, lower ranks held umbrellas and items such as coffee, keys, even pets, for colonels and above. As to saluting with an item in hand, well, he may be CIC, but he's still really civilian. At least he saluted. I've seen other presidents, including Reagan, just walk by with little or no acknowledgement of saluting military.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention
Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay)
"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
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