Neo-Nazi Group Membership May Not Get You Booted from Military, Officials Say

[douglas9]

Membership in a white supremacist or neo-Nazi group won't necessarily get a U.S. service member tossed out of the military, defense officials told a House subcommittee Tuesday.

The officials, including representatives of Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, appeared to make a distinction between membership in an extremist organization and "active participation" in deciding on recruitment and retention.

The officials also told a hearing of the House Armed Services subcommittee on personnel that they had no reliable data on how many service members had been administratively discharged for espousing white supremacist ideology or how many potential recruits had been barred from enlisting.

The testimony appeared to stun several members of the committee.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/12/neo-nazi-group-membership-may-not-get-you-booted-military-officials-say.html

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. That's insane.

[GeorgeGist]

2. Somedays I'm sure the STUPIDS are winning.

[Karadeniz]

5. Some days, they are.

[shadowmayor]

3. But

No Communists dammit- that's a bridge too far.

[dalton99a]

4. Making America great again

Navy sailors in uniform attended a Klan rally in the summer of 1923, where they were photographed holding their robes. J.W. Sandison/Whatcom Museum

[Karadeniz]

6. So, almost one hundred years later, we haven't improved much.

[CaptYossarian]

7. New ad: "We're looking for a few good racists."

"There are good people on both sides."

This must be what the damn fool meant.