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Military Salute Project :: Reference Desk :: The Flag of the United States of America :: Order of Precedence for Flags Author Topic: Order of Precedence for Flags (Read 13,695 times) Moderator Administrator member is offline Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 255 Location: Woodbury, MN Order of Precedence for Flags « Thread Started on Nov 18, 2008, 10:53am » ORDER OF PRECEDENCE FOR FLAGS (1) National Flags Alphabetically after the U.S. Flag (2) State Flags In order as they entered the Union (3) Service Flags U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy U.S. Air Force U.S. Coast Guard Army National Guard Army Reserve Marine Corps Reserve Naval Reserve Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Coast Guard Reserve (4) Organizational Flags Highest ranking to lowest ranking Alphabetically or numerically within equal ranks Host flag displayed at the center of the grouping (5) Individual Flags President of the United States Vice-President of the United States Secretary of Defense Deputy Secretary of Defense Inspector General, Department of Defense Director of Defense Research and Engineering Assistant Secretary of Defense Civilian Leadership of Each Branch (see #3 for appropriate order) Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Military Leadership of Each Branch (see #3 for appropriate order) Chief of Staff Vice Chief of Staff Generals and Admirals (highest rank to lowest rank) Individual Flags are not used for ... Personnel simply in attendance and not formally taking part in a ceremony Retired personnel (unless in uniform) Senior Executive Service personnel not filling one of the positions listed above Personnel selected for, but not confirmed to, one of the positions listed above U.S. sister service general officers when their appropriate service flag is not available General Officer flags may not be substituted for foreign country general officers of equivalent rank STATE FLAG PRECEDENCE In the order States entered the Union ... 1 - Delaware 2 - Pennsylvania 3 - New Jersey 4 - Georgia 5 - Connecticut 6 - Massachusetts 7 - Maryland 8 - South Carolina 9 - New Hampshire 10 - Virginia 11 - New York 12 - North Carolina 13 - Rhode Island 14 - Vermont 15 - Kentucky 16 - Tennessee 17 - Ohio 18 - Louisiana 19 - Indiana 20 - Mississippi 21 - Illinois 22 - Alabama 23 - Maine 24 - Missouri 25 - Arkansas 26 - Michigan 27 - Florida 28 - Texas 29 - Iowa 30 - Wisconsin 31 - California 32 - Minnesota 33 - Oregon 34 - Kansas 35 - West Virginia 36 - Nevada 37 - Nebraska 38 - Colorado 39 - North Dakota 40 - South Dakota 41 - Montana 42 - Washington 43 - Idaho 44 - Wyoming 45 - Utah 46 - Oklahoma 47 - New Mexico 48 - Arizona 49 - Alaska 50 - Hawaii Flags of American Territories should be positioned next in alphabetical order. County flags should be positioned next and in alphabetical order within a state. City flags should be positioned next, with the capitol city placed first and other cities within the state positioned alphabetically. Municipal flags (town, township, unincorporated) should be positioned next, in alphabetical order within each group. ORGANIZATIONAL FLAG PRECEDENCE Flags representing Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) chartered by the U.S. Congress and that have been approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to represent Veterans in front of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), are positioned in the following order ... 1 - American Ex-Prisoners of War 2 - American Legion 3 - AMVETS 4 - Blinded Veterans Association 5 - Catholic War Veterans 6 - Congressional Medal of Honor Society 7 - Disabled American Veterans 8 - Jewish War Veterans 9 - Legion of Valor 10 - Military Order of the Purple Heart 11 - Military Order of the World Wars 12 - National Association for Black Veterans 13 - Paralyzed Veterans of America 14 - The Retired Enlisted Association 15 - Veterans of Foreign Wars 16 - Veterans of the Vietnam War 17 - Vietnam Veterans of America Flags representing all other organizations chartered by the U.S. Congress are positioned next, followed by civic groups and patriotic organizations in alphabetical order and then alphabetically or numerically within equal groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This information is copied from Page 23 and Page 24 of the United States Flag Manual, a publication distributed by the Military Salute Project. 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