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Lost-in-FL

(7,093 posts) Thu Feb 9, 2012, 06:38 PM Feb 2012

MoFo: Marines Sport Nazi SS Flag in Afghanistan… yes, really. [View all]

Last edited Thu Feb 9, 2012, 08:12 PM - Edit history (1)

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/marines-nazi-ss-flag-afghanistan

The Marine Corps' scout snipers in Afghanistan could probably use a safety stand-down. Just weeks after news broke that one elite unit of the forward-deployed Marines urinated on the corpses of dead Afghans, a photo has surfaced of another unit posing proudly beside a flag of the Nazi's killer SS troops.

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MoFo: Marines Sport Nazi SS Flag in Afghanistan… yes, really. [View all] Lost-in-FL Feb 2012 OP

As a retired Marine! mailman82 Feb 2012 #1

I am sure that as part of their training they learn about previous wars... Lost-in-FL Feb 2012 #2

No, unless training changed since I went through Army Basic in 1993, Lurks Often Feb 2012 #8

As another former Marine VMA131Marine Feb 2012 #9

Your tax dollars at work gratuitous Feb 2012 #3

Are we sure it's not a KISS banner? Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #4

That is being generous. The Midway Rebel Feb 2012 #6

How odd. Normally I say "not a Kiss fan" as a compliment. Bruce Wayne Feb 2012 #10

Gene Simmons was born in Israel NAO Feb 2012 #23

Shame on top of shame and waste. The Midway Rebel Feb 2012 #5

Scout Sniper Fumesucker Feb 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Obamanaut Feb 2012 #11

I don't know jsmirman Feb 2012 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Obamanaut Feb 2012 #17

I don't know which one you would like us to look at jsmirman Feb 2012 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author Obamanaut Feb 2012 #22

I saw that one on the line running across the top jsmirman Feb 2012 #29

Are we sure this is real? jsmirman Feb 2012 #12

Yes. ellisonz Feb 2012 #16

Yeah, I caught that (see post #15) jsmirman Feb 2012 #21

where did you find that photo? dana_b Feb 2012 #14

Looks like it's real, unfortunately jsmirman Feb 2012 #15

crap dana_b Feb 2012 #24

While jsmirman Feb 2012 #25

My bad... link didn't show. Lost-in-FL Feb 2012 #27

thanks! dana_b Feb 2012 #28

On the other hand, the Nazi's had all the best insignia and uniforms FarCenter Feb 2012 #18

And if Hitler spent less time building dioramas of imaginary cities jsmirman Feb 2012 #19

I'd argue that we'd be Ancient Romans Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #31

This might come as no surprise, but apparently there are a white supremacist groups.... Moonwalk Feb 2012 #26

I had posted in the other thread Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #32

The background seems weird Son of Gob Feb 2012 #30

Actually, they have had that insignia for years. It is 2 lightning bolts and they are Sniper Scouts appleannie1 Feb 2012 #33

From the MarineTimes appleannie1 Feb 2012 #34

SSgt McKeon is mistaken partially about the swastika. ellisonz Feb 2012 #37

I think it likely that, "the symbolic appropriation may indeed be unwitting" as the article suggests Viking12 Feb 2012 #35

Very, very, very, very, very unlikely. Think it through cthulu2016 Feb 2012 #36

It's older than that... ellisonz Feb 2012 #38

I've read somewhere that... ocpagu Feb 2012 #39