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Monday, November 11, 2019 10:47:47 AM
Umbrella rules
A rule change means that male U.S. Marines, who previously had to stand in the rain, can now carry umbrellas while wearing their service or dress uniforms.
(Women have long been afforded a black umbrella — but only in their left hand, to keep their right free for salutes.)
U.S. Marines performed in the rain on July 4 in Washington.Credit...Alex Brandon/Associated Press
Governments have complicated relationships with umbrellas. Safety concerns have prompted umbrella bans, sometimes for reasons seemingly straight out of spy films though actually based in reality. An umbrella gun was apparently used in 1978 to stab a Bulgarian dissident in London with a fatal dose of ricin.
In 2014, umbrellas were banned in Macau during a rainy visit by President Xi Jinping of China. Airport authorities cited wind, but the Umbrella Movement then unfolding in Hong Kong was probably a bigger consideration.
During World War II, Major Digby Tatham-Warter of Britain famously carried an umbrella into battle. Once, he used it to attack an armored vehicle and incapacitate the driver.
When a lieutenant later questioned the umbrella’s usefulness in war, the major asked, “Oh my goodness Pat, what if it rains?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/briefing/hong-kong-cold-weather-veterans-day.html?action=click&module=Briefings&pgtype=Homepage
A rule change means that male U.S. Marines, who previously had to stand in the rain, can now carry umbrellas while wearing their service or dress uniforms.
(Women have long been afforded a black umbrella — but only in their left hand, to keep their right free for salutes.)
U.S. Marines performed in the rain on July 4 in Washington.Credit...Alex Brandon/Associated Press
Governments have complicated relationships with umbrellas. Safety concerns have prompted umbrella bans, sometimes for reasons seemingly straight out of spy films though actually based in reality. An umbrella gun was apparently used in 1978 to stab a Bulgarian dissident in London with a fatal dose of ricin.
In 2014, umbrellas were banned in Macau during a rainy visit by President Xi Jinping of China. Airport authorities cited wind, but the Umbrella Movement then unfolding in Hong Kong was probably a bigger consideration.
During World War II, Major Digby Tatham-Warter of Britain famously carried an umbrella into battle. Once, he used it to attack an armored vehicle and incapacitate the driver.
When a lieutenant later questioned the umbrella’s usefulness in war, the major asked, “Oh my goodness Pat, what if it rains?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/briefing/hong-kong-cold-weather-veterans-day.html?action=click&module=Briefings&pgtype=Homepage
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