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  • Around each funeral at Arlington you will see three to four soliders in their dress blue uniform guarding the ceremony from a distance of 100 or more yards away. They are called "Supers." They position themselves near roads or in the open to prevent others from accidentally intruding on the ceremony.
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  • Soldiers of a full honors funeral waiting for the casket to arrive for transfer to the caisson.
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  • Soldiers on firing party duty train behind their barracks. They practice for accuracy of manuevers and synchronization with each other. During funerals with standard or higher honors, a firing party of seven soldiers fire three volleys of blanks for the total of 21 shots fired as a salute to the deceased.
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  • Sergeant First Class Nicholas Zielinski, presses his uniform in the large commercial steam irons in the basement of the company barracks. The first time a uniform is pressed it takes 2-3 hours, and is referred to as "baking it in."  Staff Sergeant Gaston presses his pants in the background.
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  • Soldiers from the Caisson Platoon in the Old Guard at Fort Myers, VA help conduct quarterly cleaning. Once a quarter the platoo assembles at the stables at 4:30 in the morning to shovel out, hose down, and resupply saw dust for all of the stables.
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  • Injured soldiers from Walter Reed Hospital participate in horse therapy at the Caisson Stables on Fort Myers. On this day one soldier and two staff members rode the horses in different positions in order to work different muscles.
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  • Precision, timing, synchronization are keep elements to military honors at a funeral. The soldiers that preform these ceremonies constantly practice and training to reach and then maintain these skills. Here 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon of the Honor Guard Company practices in the company area how to carrying the casket and fold the flag.
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