Welcome to Bushnell National Cemetery. Bushnell is the second busiest National Cemetery in the U.S.--busier than Arlington National Cemetery--and it is located in the Withlacoochee State Forest, approximately 50 miles north of Tampa in Sumter County. SSG Harris, Dennis is the NCOIC (Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge) for the Army funeral honor guard team at Bushnell. Each team will have a team leader. There are three types of funerals: regular honors, full honors, and KIA. With regular honors, the team leader and two additional honor guards will perform honor guard duties. For a full honors a team leader and six other honor guards will perform. For a KIA (Killed in Action), the deceased service member will have a team leader and up to 14 honor guards at their service.

When an honor guard team comes on site (for KIA, days before), the team leader of the group will have the information pertaining to the funeral or funerals they will be attending. Monday's and Friday's are the busiest days at Bushnell. The current record at Bushnell on a Friday is 64 funerals in one day. The most our honor guard team had was 12 in one day, sometimes we will have four at the same time. Other VSO's (Veteran Service Organizations), such as the VFW (Veteran of Foreign wars), American Legion, Marine Corp league, and other voluntary honor guard teams will be at Bushnell honoring those that have served. Depending on personnel and the number of funerals, we may use a member from the other VSO's or lend one of our honor guards to their VSO, including the other armed forces branches honor guard units. Being an honor guard is pretty easy, all you have to do is work on muscle memory. The subsections below will break down the types of military funerals:

Funeral Honor Guard Manual

Emotional side

Regular honors

Full honors

KIA

honor guard pictures

sabers and swords

Army Casualty Website

Planeside honors

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Regular Honors Procedure Manual edited by Jess

Dennis, basically I just reformatted the text and made some minimal changes involving word choice and structure--nothing major. As an instructional guide, format and quick chunks make it easier for the reader to grasp the concept. I think you explain the procedure quite well. I imagine you were probably going to format this document into a different structure anyway, but I thought I might as well throw in my two sense. You did really well explaining a very technical, precise performance. I can't imagine doing this on a daily basis--or in front of anyone for that matter. I hope you like what I did here..

Dennis----I love the white space. The white space makes it a lot easier to read. The structure is fantastic. I never used borders in the past, but it keeps everything corralled. I brought your example to work with me today (tuesday) and they liked it. I'll make a few changes and add the rest: full honors, KIA, Drill and Ceremony, and Uniform appearance.

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