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Reprinted with permission from ProPublica.
An Alarming Tip About a Neo-Nazi Marine, Then an Uncertain Response
It was Oct. 29, 2017, when Ed Beck decided he had to contact the military police.
For weeks, Beck had been tracking the online life of a 21-year-old lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He said he had concluded the young man, a North Carolina native named Vasillios Pistolis, was deeply involved in neo-Nazi and white supremacist activities.
Beck said he had compiled an exhaustive dossier on the young Marine, tracing the evolution of Pistolis racist worldview over recent years and linking him to violent altercations at the bloody white power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August. The most recent piece of evidence, Beck said, was a fresh video that appeared to show Pistolis standing alongside a leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a fascist group, during a confrontation with an interracial couple at a restaurant in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.
Beck was well-positioned both to be offended by Pistolis alleged conduct and to report it: Beck had served in the Marines from 2002 through 2006, including a tour in Iraq. In fact, hed been assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Unit, the same unit in which Pistolis was serving.
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Hey United States Marines Corp and your Commanding General Robert B. Neller is the 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Prior to his current assignment, he served as the Commander, Marine Forces Command from July 2014 to September 2015 and Commander, Marine Forces Central Command from September 2012 to June 2014.
I don't know........................but the Corps is not suppose to be a breeding ground for terrorists, that's not what the tax dollars are suppose to be spent for.......................got it, if not resign
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Marengo
(3,477 posts)Into our barracks in Camp Scwab, Okinawa, he had the gall to hang a full size Blutfahne by his bunk. Company commander threw a fit and the idiot was NJPd, but he should have been tossed out for that nonsense.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)rid of assholes, during the Vietnam deployments, he basically told the assholes everyone bleeds red, when you die, stripped them of there ranks and they got dishonorably discharges .....................
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Or do mean less than honorable?
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)would fall in the Neo-Nazi or white supremacist group. Of course, another huge chunk would "just be" racists/bigots.
Phoenix61
(16,993 posts)No way they would vote for a female president.