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Veterans Advisory Committee Minutes November 30, 2021 Page 14 service to come in or give National Guard permission to stand in their place. Like our group we're getting kind of old and sometimes it's getting hard time to do this thing, we have guys on crutches or wheelchairs, its hard to do these things. Chair Doolittle: I would suggest we put it on as an agenda item to talk about along with the discussions of the cemeteries and funding and the like. To see if we can, as a committee, pass some kind of resolution to put those requests out there in a little bit more of an official way. I know the Navy League has an organization here. Lewis: Maybe we can do a Memorandum of Agreement. I think first, Minoru is saying they're not getting the permission because they have to say mother may I every time. So, Minoru you were saying you were able to step in at the cemetery for those funerals to make sure they didn't go without? Or what? Hanato: If the military don't come, we perform everything. Lewis: Same on our side with Geno and the Legion and other groups that join him. We could propose something, I don't know what office. It seems to be if we could have a draft on this topic next time and then approve something so were not waiting months and months to address this. Because if what Minoru is saying, if any funeral goes without because this hasn't been agreed upon, that's on all of us. We'll make it as easy as possible. Chair Doolittle: I think that needs to be a separate agenda item to be discussed. Lewis: I don't know who would do that, but we just need to do an inquiry to see who would generate this. It could come from the National Guard; they could do it and send it out to the different services. It doesn't have to be us doing it. Chair Doolittle: it sounds to me from what he was saying is that, when you have a different branch of service whether it's Navy or Air Force or Coast Guard you have to get permission from that service branch, in order to represent from another branch of service. Its another one of those catch 22 things that you can resolve by having, when you're talking about remote areas and you don't really have the funding to bring somebody in, you can deal with it in whatever military organization you have locally and that only makes sense, whether it's' American legion, VFW, or a composite honor guard as a local unit. Maybe that happens from the training area up there, active -duty folks. Antonio Gaspar: Can I interrupt you folks? Ok, before I retired from the Army National Guard, there was a job opening that it says they need 28 personnel to be on the honor guard, 21-gun salute in the pacific. I never take a chance, I never apply. They wanted 28 personnel regardless of Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard. If somebody pass away, you going to be ready or be a part of the 28 people. But you don't know if you will go or somebody else will go. Now, what you guys are saying, it is happening, regardless of what service, if they ask for 21-gun salute, if they call your name, you are going to go. However, I