Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 01, 2018

What does “salute” actually mean in this situation?

I still get nightmares that I am back in service at my age. I heard that they drafted people as old as 68 back in Iraq 1. Doctors, I think.

I believe they were fully dressed and having drinks.

Umm, so there are no older NCO’s?

BD thinks it’s over now. He’s wrong.

I wonder if we’ll see the rest of this arc?

Raising the hand to the face. From the knights of old flipping up their visors.

“There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me, gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning.”