As a veteran, the lack of salutes and especially seeing the NGs turning their back on Joe - stand out to me.
But I don't want to put any stock in this yet. Concerned about my own confirmation bias.
I have not seen a salute exchanged. Have any of you?
I've told family members that when I was in the ARMY, if an individual or a platoon turned their backs on POTUS, we would have been charged under the UCMJ.
I can see how their chain of command would be happy to ignore it (especially NCOs). But I would expect some ass-kissing officer to come down hard on them just to score political points.
And it not happening indicates that the upper brass is endorsing it.
I said something very similar on another thread a couple of days ago. Thirty years ago in the Marine Corps we would have been charged with some violation under the UCMJ for not saluting a dignitary or, god forbid, the CIC. The whole thing seems odd.