re: How much red tape you think one would have to go through to have a Floating Pyre funeral?

There is a dude in my son’s unit who is a Viking (like descendent of Vikings, religious exemption to wear a Viking beard, worships their gods, all of it) his funeral instructions are just that.

If he is KIA, you bet your arse that’s what will happen.

One of the unit guys that died on 11/11 off of Cyprus had burial at sea as his wish. He put it on there when he first finished Green Platoon as an immature joke and never updated that part of his will. They followed his wish and had his wife and children on board the ship when it happened.