Garrison flag, how do you fold it?

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

20’ x 36’ how is it folded without touching the ground? Really tall soldiers?

[Cat Brules]

Just more soldiers.

[Ozark Huckleberry]

Can’t remember how large the garrison flag at NAS Pensacola was, but if I remember right, when we brought it down we accordion-folded it into the arms of two lines of four or five candidates along its length on each side, facing each other as it was lowered, then detached it from the halyard. After it was free, we sorted out the first fold as the lines stepped away from each other instead of spreading it completely out. 
 

I’ll always remember, the warning was that if we were hoisting it and the wind caught it, let go and get clear. One guy tried to hang on and I think he got flipped a good ten feet in the air and twenty sideways. 

[DocWard]

I did it once, at Ft. Sam Houston, decades ago. As I recall, we did it much as Ozark Huckleberry described, but we also had a soldier posted at each end, if memory serves.

[Cat Brules]

Here’s a YouTube clip. 9-10 minutes.   Set it at “full screen”
                  Cat Brules

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Cat Brules said:

Here’s a YouTube clip. 9-10 minutes.   Set it at “full screen”
                  Cat Brules

 

 

Stout fellows there at the hoist.  That can't be light.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Needed a Chief to orchestrate.