Special warfare unit members reprimanded for Trump flag
Mick sends us a link to the Virginian-Pilot which reports that members of a Virginia Beach-based special warfare unit was reprimanded for flying a Trump campaign flag from a vehicle in a military convoy that was going through Kentucky in January.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that one of the videos was shot by a Shepherdsville, Ky., man while he was driving on Interstate 65 on his way to pick up feed for his goat farm.
“I just thought it was just a bunch of military vehicles,” Steve Thompson told the newspaper Monday. “I was surprised because I figured you wouldn’t be able to fly anything on a Humvee other than an American flag.”
While certain other flags may be flown, political flags are not permitted.
Military convoy spotted near Louisville flying Donald Trump flag belonged to SEAL unit, U.S. Navy spokesperson says. https://t.co/JKMCpcDoBA pic.twitter.com/yF0ktSiEgV
— ABC News (@ABC) February 2, 2017
Category: Navy
Looks like some snowflake’s feelings were hurt.
“on his way to pick up feed for his goat farm”
There’s yer answer.
da mooslimes be waiting!!
Looks like he sold his photos– I’m sure the pay-out helped smooth his ruffled feathers.
In the ole White Name Tape Army days (that only Poet and I remember here) you could not go on Post with a political sticker etc of any kind on your POV.
Ah, yes. back in the days when you could get a DR for having an”unsightly vehicle” because you hadn’t washed your car to yhe CG’s standards.
AND … you couldn’t get out the gate wearing blue jeans.
So my father (white tape, black tape & gold lettering; and OD tape)told me.
JSF
Hey it wasn’t easy on us guys supposed to be writing those DR’s either. My very first OJT post patrol at Fort Campbell in 1959 was on a Saturday. I was riding in a pickup between two seasoned coppers, one a leg E-5 and the other an Airborne SP4, the way they always patrolled in those days. Ten minutes into our shift, we turned into the troop line and hadn’t gone two blocks before we came up behind a group of 501st troopers who were drunkenly marching down the center of the street with one of them calling Jody cadence. The sergeant was inclined to let them slide if they’d just get out of the way but when he honked the horn they all presented arms with their middle fingers held high. Well, that brought the image of the Military Police into question and the sergeant said we couldn’t let them get away with such brazen disrespect–we would have to take at least a couple of them to the drunk tank then let them go after they sobered up. We exited the pickup, faced off against them in the middle of the street and the sergeant informed them that if they didn’t break up their formation and go back to the barracks that some of them were going to be taken in. Well you can imagine how an ultimatum like that went down with a bunch of drunk paratroopers. As soon as the SP4 laid a hand on the first drunk, the fight was on, a brawl that lasted about five minutes before they broke away and ran for their barracks. That came only because when the sergeant began yelling they were all under arrest for resisting and assaulting a police officer. He also threatened we would draw our forty-fives. We managed to get three of them in the back of the truck and I rode shotgun on them back to the provost marshal’s office. Being the inexperienced copper, I had fared the worst in the fight. The desk sergeant took one look at me standing there with my khakis… Read more »
“That came only because the sergeant…”
I forgot to delete the “when”.
Ah, the White Name Tape Army. I never was in it, but my older brother was. As well as though mentioned (sj and Ole Poe), Frankie Cee, Club Manager, and perhaps even 20thEB67, may well remember when everything that was issued by the Army was also repaired by the Army, up to and including your mess kits.
I know nowadays people may make jokes about being in a mess kit repair company/battalion, but they did exist and here’s one example:
The 7807th QM Direct Support Company located at Emery Barracks in Wurzburg. The company even had an 18 man Mobile Maintenance Platoon that would roll out the shop repair vans and come to your location in the field and re-rivet the handles on your mess pan and canteen cup if need be. And while they were there they would do canvas repair and even sew new zippers into the GP Small, Medium and Large Tents you had set up.
It was a better time and fondly remembered by those still with us.
7807th sounds like a CSG/CLG unit. I’ve worked with and supported those kinds of units and they’re the greatest. I can remember inspecting their automotive equipment and being unable to find anything wrong and that was stuff being turned in because of obsolescence.
” fondly remembered ”
Not all of it. Those white name tapes were worn on OG107 fatigues. Putting on a fresh set was known as “breaking starch” because the quartermaster laundry used so much starch and ironed them so forcefully that you had to separate the layers by hand before putting them on. And the buttons were frequently broken by the (evidently)industrial hydraulic 50 ton drop hammers used to “press” them. “Ironed” is an understatement. And they were crap for field use. Delicate, binding, no useful pocket space, hot in summer and cold in winter.
But the did look STRAC with the blue ascot(!) on parade.
ah, but when they were broken in they were the most comfortable uniforms around. They did not have cargo pockets (which you couldn’t have used anyway), were MUCH cooler in summer than the synthetic pickle suits and multiple-layer BDUs which followed – I will grant that in winter they were not much better than anything else – but that’s why you had field trou. I only wore ’em for a few years… but never had a broken button. Evidently they fixed that later.
Naughty, naughty.
They are allowed to fly flags with pickles or hot dogs or even Red Cross flags, but no political stuff on USGOV vehicles.
Wrong is wrong but it was probably a matter of pride and relief after 8 years of having a Chump in Chief.
FOR ALL: We are having a We Support Trump rally in Hot Springs, Arkansas this Saturday at 1100 in the park next to the Arlington Hotel on Central Avenue. Y’all come.
We’ll try to make it but we may have to be in Little Rock.
Forget the political angle, they’re gonna rip the antenna mount right off the truck doing that! Dammit guys, the flag gets spread across the back of the truck!
Well it’s not like they were flying the First NAVY Jack or anything…
The First Navy Jack and the Gadsden Flag would both merit a well-deserved “fuck off” to the snowflakes’ complaints. The Trump campaign banner is a different story.
My understanding is that this photo was taken after Trump had been elected. If that is the case, there is no offense.
My comment was a reference to the Navy telling SEAL teams they couldn’t wear the First Navy Jack on their uniforms. Apparently it went over like a lead balloon and they wore them anyways.
The Navy Air Defense guys running the C-RAMs in Basra in 2010 were definitely flying it high.
Way back in the day, one of the hard chargers from Delta Company 1st Tracked Vehicle Battalion attached a pirate flag acquired from Tokyo Disneyland to the antenna of an M-60, D-13, to be precise. Later that morning, someone forgot to mention to PFC Jackson, the tank driver, that the war with Japan ended forty years earlier, because he must have thought that the war was still on. That could be the only explanation of why he rammed that tank into the bridge separating Camp Fuji from the JGSDF camp across the road. Tankboy can vouch for my description.
Hmmm maybe a tight turn and forgetting to go into low? Had my fair share of “that’s a wide turn” moment when driving M-60A1’s.
Back in the day (well the late 70’s early 80’s)…I remember that we had the names of our tanks stenciled on the gun tube. Since we were Troop E the panzers all had names that started with E. Our PSG commanded Exterminator, the LT had Eliminator, my buddy commanded Extreme Prejudice (back when you spelled Extreme the right way), since I was the newest TC with the youngest crew, we ended up with Exorcist Lush (That was poetic as hell, we did our best to live up to the lush part). I wonder how those names would go over if we paraded through downtown Olympia?
Ass chewin’s all around for the Trump flagwavers, not for doing it, but ’cause they got caught.
I was in Bravo Company, 1st/72d Armor at Camp Casey back in the late 70’s and we named our M60 tank “BAD CO” as in the band “Bad Company.” We painted the band’s logo on the gun tube and searchlight cover.
It looked bad ass, but needless to say the company commander started b*tching about it because he thought we were referring to Bravo company, so we changed it…until he left and we changed it back.
“until he left and we changed it back.” Damn GIs. Can’t ever turn your back on one.
You’ll be shot for this!
Naw, more like chewed out. I been chewed out before…..
Ass always grows back after a chewin’
Okay, THAT’S funny!
Even more so with Christoph Waltz’s full-retard interview.
Jerks. If that had read What’sHisName, that guy who moved out of the WH in January, I’d want their balls on a platter, after cooking at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. So, fair is fair. I think the flag was stupid.
All they had to do was fly the Hot Dog! flag. No one would have noticed.
Ex, what’s this “hot dog flag” that’s been mentioned a couple of times?
Am I really *THAT* out of touch?
JSF
When you find out, let me know.
Scroll down and you’ll see it.
http://breedofdog.fsylb.com/best-american-hot-dog-recipes/
Great. Good enough to eat.
I’m sure that the troop(s) that did this got the appropriate ass chew. After which they did an about-face, un-assed the AO, and laughed their (freshly chewed) asses off.
Butthurt snowflakes or not, this was inappropriate. They shouldn’t be flying political colors in uniform like that. They know better.
Could they get away with it in a war zone? Yeah, probably, provided they avoided the media and didn’t plaster it all over the Internet. But out in the open for all to see on a road in the US, no.
Someone needs to pass this on to Sarah Silverman and ask her how that military coup she wanted is coming along.
So if it wasn’t a pre-election flag, and just one that said “Trump” it would have been more okay? I mean it’d still get corrected, but more at the ‘stay off my grass’ level, I suspect.
I thought flying the Trump flag was a pretty good psyop to scare the orcs myself (just as I’m sure that an Obama flag would likely have simply made them laugh).
Turns on music blaring:
“Wagner?
Yea, scares the hell out of the sxxxxs.”
FYI that photo was initially posted online by Indivisible Kentucky, a part of the Saul Alinsky Sore Loser Leftist Club that shows up at Republican town hall meetings and acts like d-bags. The news picked it up after that.
I have to agree that even though this whole thing probably came about because of some BH Snowflake, this was an inappropriate display. Keep the flags for your POV’s.
I agree with all the comments regarding the inappropriateness of flying the Trump flag on a military vehicle. But I also find it funny as hell. Had I passed that particular vehicle, I believe I would had honked and given them a thumbs up.
I suspect that the ass-chewin’ they got was something along the lines – “What the h*ll were you thinking? You know you can’t do that sh*t. Don’t do it again and get the h*ll out of my sight.” – all said with a big *ss smile on the face.
Like a first sergeant once told me, “Long, I was told to reprimand you about parking in the S-3’s parking spot. Consider yourself reprimanded.”
Shouldn’t have had the flag on the hummer. That being said it should be removed and that’s the end of it. Carlton G Long, your parking spot story bought back a memory. My FDC shared a space with the Battalion FO Laision Section, who had a terminal Staff Sergeant with about 18 years in. He was as dumb as a bag of cracked hammer handles, and so bad that no firing battery wanted him. The S-3A, was a Major who although he wasn’t as bad as the SSGT he wasn’t that sharp either. Whenever we went to the field we would pull our Humvee up to the shop and load up all our gear, some of it being quite heavy. The SSGT had decided to mark the only viable parking place as “His” parking spot. He got a major case of the ass when my guys parked there and started loading the hummer. I told him that that was the only spot they could park unless they carried all that heavy shit another 50 yards, which wasn’t about to happen. I asked that he simply wait for 20 more minutes and we would be gone. He decided to try to go high and to the right and he stuttered and yelled at me for not “coordinating” with him. I explained that my Marines had been in early and bought the humvee over and he, as usual didn’t show up until half an hour after the rest of the battalion was at work. I said I was done with the conversation and was going to supervise my Marines. He made the mistake of putting his foot in front of the door to try to stop me from leaving. One broken door later I was standing in front of my 1st Sgt who was on the phone with an Irate S-3 Major who wanted their door fixed. My 1st Sgt told the major to get his idiot SSgt under control or he would personally walk over and do to him what I had done to the door. That pretty much ended the… Read more »
Sometimes you gotta whip a fool.
hahahaha…totally worth it.
Must have been going thru the only demorat county in KY I live in KY and can tell you that 95% of us Kentuckians voted TRUMP that asshat just needs to stick with fucking his goats and shut the fuck up. We support our Military, well most of us anyway. Death Before Dishonor Brothers
At the Article 15 hearing in the CO’s office:
Cpt Binkles: “Who put that Trump flag on that vehicle”?
SFC Jones: “I dunno Sir, I never saw it before I saw the picture”.
2Lt Wantanatabe: “So you have no idea how it got there”?
SFC Jones: “No Sir and I interviewed the entire squad and somebody said that it must have been put on by some civilian puke when we stopped to piss at the 7-11”. “Everybody in the squad had orders to vote for oblowme and I am certain that they did”…
Private Jalorapy: “I was asleep when it happened sir”.
Cpt Binkles: “You were the driver private”…
Hilarity ensues…