Campaigner flyer fail

The Daily Caller reports that incumbent congresswoman Julia Brownley sent the above flyer to her constituents to show them who she is concerned about – apparently she’s concerned about female members of the German Luftwaffe;

That photograph shows a young woman in a white, open-collared military uniform, wearing a white cap displaying a gold insignia and blue-and-gold trim.

Although it bears a fleeting resemblance to official attire worn by the U.S. Navy, no branch of the United States military wears a uniform like the one in the mailer. And the insignia on the cap is the symbol of the Bundeswehr Luftwaffe, Germany’s air force.

There was a Star Trek episode that stands out in my mind about a kid who wanted to mimic the life he saw on Earth. He cooked a meal with sumptuous food that he saw through his telescope, but when the crew of the Enterprise bit into the food, it had no taste, because the kid couldn’t know how the food tasted by looking at it. That’s how Congress interacts with the military – they see uniforms and they all look alike, so even a German Air Force uniform is suitable for campaign literature.

“Washington is packed with politicians who love to pay lip service, to use our military veterans as props around election time,” Jessie Jane Duff, a retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and advisor to Concerned Veterans for America, told The Daily Caller. “You would think that Rep. Brownley, who serves on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, would at least be able to do so correctly.”

13 years of war and they still can’t get it right.

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