Marines posed with Nazi SS symbol in Afghanistan

[1979Shocker]

By Abby Sewell and Tony Perry
Los Angeles Times
Published: February 9, 2012

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Marine Corps is dealing with fallout from the revelation that a group of Marines based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., and deployed to Afghanistan posed for a picture in front of a flag bearing a Nazi symbol.

The Marine Corps confirmed that the Marines pictured in the photo, which surfaced on the Internet, were part of one of its scout sniper teams deployed in Sangin province in 2010. The photo shows the Marines posing in front of a U.S. flag with a flag bearing the Nazi SS symbol underneath.

Lt. Col. Stewart Upton said in a statement that the scout snipers had been “addressed” concerning the issue. He said none of the personnel in the picture are still part of the unit, which is now deployed again.

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[Awesome Sauce Malone]

im sure it was all in good fun because racism does not exist anymore.

[60Shock]

And neither does stupidity.

[KC Shox]

Face it. There are some members of our military personnel who are just not very smart. Quotas need to be filled and I believe at times, they are filled with the dimmest lit light bulbs on the face of the planet. This incident, along with numerous others of photographing urinating on dead bodies, a video of Marines surrounding a goat in a room in Afghanistan where they pass a baseball bat around and strike it until its dead, along with others just are head scratching.

I can see this happening to third world countries who have third world armies, but dammit, we are the USA. We set the example, we hold ourselves to be the best of the best, we need to act like it. A few bad apples spoil the bunch propaganda will be used unfortunately.

[DUShock]

There is no quota filling when it comes to Snipers.

[Snapshot9]

It was a stupid stupid thing to do. Nazi Germany has terrible implications to it, and you DO NOT pose with a Swastika flag ... period Nothing about this is humerous, at all.

3 time Vietnam Veteran

[SB Shock]

you DO NOT pose with a Swastika flag ... period

Well, then I guess you will feel better since they did not pose with a nazi "swastika". It was two lightning bolts shaped as a "s" standing for "scout sniper".

[kcshocker11]

Well, then I guess you will feel better since they did not pose with a nazi "swastika". It was two lightning bolts shaped as a "s" standing for "scout sniper".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
They need to to change their signature with respect to those who lived and served during WW2

[SB Shock]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel
They need to to change their signature with respect to those who lived and served during WW2

No doubt it was bad taste. They, much like the average American really don't know history except what come from "call of duty" on their PS3. They probably thought thought they were being cute.