Marine general orders removal of Confederate items at bases

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

WASHINGTON -- All Confederate flags, bumper stickers and similar items must be removed from Marine Corps bases, according to a new directive from the commandant.

Marine Gen. David Berger has told his commanders to begin implementing the order or develop plans to do so by Saturday.

The order was included in a sweeping memo Berger sent out last week that calls for administrative changes and other reviews. They range from efforts to recruit additional women for combat jobs, restrictions on Marines convicted of domestic violence and the possible expansion of maternity leave and guidelines for pregnant service members.

Berger's memo provides no details on the Confederate order, but simply directs “the removal of all Confederate-related paraphernalia from Marine Corps installations.” But the plan would cover flags, signs and other Confederate symbols.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/marine-general-orders-removal-confederate-items-bases-69287809?cid=clicksource_4380645_9_heads_posts_headlines_hed

[ck4829]

1. I'm surprised that's a thing that needs to be done

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You serve under the American flag and the Confederacy was an enemy of the United States and peace meant it was dissolved.

Might as well have Al Qaeda or ISIS memorabilia on you.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Exactly. Alarming that those anti-US symbols were ever allowed at all on gov't property. n/t

[SnowCritter]

14. I belong to a couple of Marine Corps veterans groups on Facebook

You should witness the wailing and gnashing of teeth that is being exhibited in those groups. There are a few liberals like me in the groups, but most are brainwashed crayon eaters.

[dware]

16. Yep,

I'm experiencing the same thing.

Semper Fi fellow Marine.

[unc70]

2. Wonder if that applies to vehicles on base?

Lots of Confederate decals and such on private vehicles that routinely come on base -- owned by service members and by civilian employees. They could enforce the rule on those receiving base license tag/decal.

[Skittles]

4. the idea they were ever allowed to display such racist trash

[Evolve Dammit]

7. yes, exactly.

[Skittles]

13. I do NOT remember seeing that when I served

not at ALL

[dware]

17. Different times Skittles,

different times.

I think it's mostly the younger generation brainwashed by the Mango Menace, not us old timers.

[Skittles]

22. yeah

I was in before Don't Ask Don't Tell - we knew may gay folk, no one made a big deal of it. Then came Reagan.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

18. I was Army, and I saw lots of them

Especially in Georgia.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. You know what else is good enough for the Marines and should be good enough for the country?

The Metric system.

USA exceptionalism has it keeping company with only Liberia and Burma (which will be the name of Myanmar when the people wrest their country from the hands of the military).

[blueinredohio]

6. Soon he won't have a job. Trump will see to that.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. That may be. But he did what was right. This is what leadership should look like.

[blueinredohio]

10. I agree wholeheartedly.

[ck4829]

25. Yep

[Mr.Bill]

9. Racism implications aside,

it's the flag of an enemy we defeated in war. It doesn't belong on a military base any more than a Nazi flag.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. I was always puzzled by naming US Naval vessels after confederate figures

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/08/15/meet-the-navy-ships-named-in-honor-of-the-confederacy/

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. They also named Army bases after them.

Fort Jackson, South Carolina after Stonewall Jackson. Fort Bragg, North Carolina after Braxton Bragg. Fort Lee, Virginia after Robert E Lee. Fort Polk, Louisiana after Leonidas Polk (who had been the Episcopal Bishop of New Orleans before the war). Fort Hood, Texas after John Bell Hood. Fort Benning, Georgia after Henry Benning. All Confederate generals.

[Cirque du So-What]

20. I am a Navy veteran

hence my greater familiarity with ships. Still isn’t right IMO.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

21. I am an Army veteran

I have been to some of those bases, and have heard of the others.

[ck4829]

24. It's weird for sure

I wonder when we'll have the USS Osama bin Laden

[littlemissmartypants]

12. Additional source, Confederate-related paraphernalia must be removed ...

Earlier this month, the Military Times released a poll showing 36% of troops who responded said they personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism in recent months. That was an increase from the year before, when only 22% reported the same, the Military Times reported.

Poll participants reported witnessing not just racist language and discriminatory attitudes, but swastikas being drawn on service members' cars, tattoos affiliated with white supremacist groups, stickers supporting the Ku Klux Klan and Nazi-style salutes between peers, according to the Military Times.

More at the link. https://www.wral.com/confederate-related-paraphernalia-must-be-removed-from-all-marine-installations-commandant-orders/18981775/

[cntrfthrs]

15. confederate items are not 'heritage'...

they are symbols of white supremacy and racism and have no place in our multi-cultural military...

[ck4829]

23. +1