Patrick Air Force Base Honor Guard displayed the art and skill of providing funeral honors during a demonstration Nov. 17 at Memorial Plaza at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida.
During the demonstration, the honor guard conducted a military funeral honors ceremony. The ceremony included a 20-person team that performed pallbearing, a six-person flag fold, a color guard, a firing party, the playing of Taps, and a flag presentation. Second Lt. Carla Stapleton, Patrick AFB Honor Guard member and range control officer for the 1st Range Operations Squadron, narrated through the different traditions in the ceremony.
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