Navy: Special forces flew Trump flag in convoy

[jpak]

Source: USA Today

LOUISVILLE — It's official: The military convoy seen flying a Trump flag in Louisville on Sunday belonged to a Navy Special Warfare unit, and the flag was "unauthorized," a Navy spokeswoman said.

Lt. Jacqui Maxwell of the Naval Special Warfare Group 2 in Virginia Beach, Va., said a command inquiry is underway.

“Yes, it was inappropriate,” Maxwell said. “It was unauthorized.”

She said she did not know the potential penalties for the violation.

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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/02/military-convoy-flew-trump-flag-convoy/97388366/

[sharp_stick]

1. Somebody is going to be

responsible for raising and lowering the flag at a remote base in Greenland for a long time.

[babylonsister]

2. wtf is a dt flag? Ugh, nevermind, saw it. nt

[Blanks]

26. Is this it?

[pkdu]

51. cant be...hands too big. nt

[MyOwnPeace]

52. can't be..............

[Mc Mike]

3. Whelp, THOSE assholes should certainly be demoted, cashiered, sent to Portsmouth.

You can't fight to defend the Constitution if you're too dumb to understand it.

Supremely disrespectful of the American flag, and America, btw.

[RegexReader]

34. doubt that anything will happen

because that's not where the US flag would be flown from a vehicle anyways. Plus, with Trump going to the airport with his daughter is going to give them cover for anything at the moment.

[Mc Mike]

38. Can't claim to know all military protocol, and I don't think they'll be punished, like they deserve.

But no flag of a politician should be flown by our troops, on American citizen-owned military vehicles or bases, no matter what kind of right wing nut job dRumpf fan boys those troops happen to be.

They swore an oath to defend the Constitution, not to be the private army of a draft dodging coward, no matter how stupid they are, or how much they just lurve that nazi.

If it isn't an American flag, it shouldn't be flying on military property, period. Who gives a crap if they were IN a dRumpf motorcade? And they weren't.

[Delphinus]

46. What you said.

Thank you.

[Mc Mike]

50. Thanks, Delph. nt.

[pangaia]

4. Well, if those guys in the Navy SPECIAL WARFARE Unit want to

practice some of their 'special warfare' techniques, they sure have the right guy for it.

Personally, if I were in the Navy, I would much rather stay alive.

[wryter2000]

5. He has his own flag?

Sieg heil, y'all

[jpak]

7. yup

[harun]

18. I've seen that somewhere before....

[Fresh_Start]

6. ISIS...when you look for locations to retaliate..remember the trump flag

and the trump name.

[atreides1]

8. Isn't that wonderful

Saluting the man who got one of their own killed...I wonder how many of them will end up dying before they realize that they are nothing but cannon fodder to him!!!

[heaven05]

9. bet all these trumpchumps get

is a slap on the wrist....I believe NOTHING coming out of ANY command structure this country now has. So far it's all been LIES!!!!!!

[maxrandb]

10. Don't let this die. Someone needs a Court Martial for this

This is completely unacceptable!

[gopiscrap]

22. I agree

to me this is treason, an executable offense!!!

[maxrandb]

25. That's a bit hyperbolic

but the commander of the unit and whoever else thought this was a "good idea" need an appearance at Non-Judicial Punishment or Special Court Martial, and their careers should be OVER!

[gopiscrap]

33. still think they should be blindfolded tied to a post and shot

that would send a chill into any other fucking idiot asshole in the military who would think it is appropriate. To me it's still treasonous!!!

[xor]

56. No you don't.

[SticksnStones]

11. I couldn't get past a USAToday paywall

for those who can't see it

http://abcnews.go.com/US/military-convoy-flying-trump-flag-belonged-seal-unit/story?id=45207477

[bdamomma]

20. again Ivanka

is right there with him.

They all need to go. I hate seeing them in our White House.

[TBA]

12. Hope they are ready to lay down their lives for him

Cuz that might just happen.

[iluvtennis]

14. +100 nt

[maxrandb]

13. You can let this SPECWAR Command's Echelon II Commander know what you think about this

It's U.S. Fleet Forces Command. They might have a website with contact info or something

[iluvtennis]

15. WTF, this is the USA, not Trumpland. Only US flag can be flown (if any) from that mil vehicle nt

[rockfordfile]

16. They need to be let go

You can't trust people like that in our Armed Forces.

[Abouttime]

39. I agree

A stunt as egregious as this should end a career, it shows poor judgement.
The entire country is enraged by this stolen election and someone in our armed services shoves in our faces?
Heads need to roll. Forty percent of Americans want tRump impeached and he's only been in office 2 weeks!

[old guy]

17. There will be no repercussions.

tRump will protect them.

[BeyondGeography]

19. If everyone took the same approach to taxes as their hero

these fools wouldn't have a job, let alone all that cool gear we provide them.

[world wide wally]

21. Was that to celebrate their fellow serviceman getting killed in Yemen?

[gopiscrap]

23. Good question

[hexola]

24. Trump's Bengahzi?

Why not, right?

[maxrandb]

27. Imagine this scenario if you will

A convoy of military vehicles, weapons bristling, troops in uniform rolling through an American city with an Obama Flag.

[dem4decades]

28. Just who did they swear allegiance to?

I thought it was the Constitution.

[maxrandb]

29. Reminds me of one of the funniest damn things I ever saw from the right

Last edited Thu Feb 16, 2017, 12:46 PM - Edit history (1)

President Obama was speaking in Ohio. Some threads on that "t-bagging, wingnut site" got well over a couple of hundred responses with people just aghast that President Obama had his "own flag"...not only did they go apoplectic about that, but they were at "Depends Level Code Brown" because they said it appeared President Obama had simply made some changes to the American flag to come up with this "Obama Flag".



Think about the above for a minute and then "google" "State Flag of Ohio"

[msanthrope]

40. Yeah.....I was on the Reddit thread.....good times, good times. nt

[Retrograde]

30. I'd ask why Trump even has a flag

but I remembered that several corporations have their own flags - which are only seen at corporate offices.

So let troops fly the flag of a private corporation - it will remind them what they're really fighting and dying for.

[geek tragedy]

31. How close are we to a coup in this country?

Dear lord. He has his own private commandos operating within the US armed services.

Everyone of those guys needs to be kicked out of the military as they're the type who threaten freedom instead of protecting it.

[burrowowl]

32. They should be cashiered!

[not fooled]

35. Geez

If they're gonna pick someone to fly a flag for, can't they do better than a draft-dodging, military-dissing, head case chickenhawk?

I guess the braggadocio and bluster outweigh everything else.

[Bradical79]

36. Was this before or after the Yemen raid?

I can't remember the timing. I imagine many aren't feeling all rah rah for President Trump at the moment.

[haele]

55. A little before, perhaps even during.

"Celebration" before the results were in. Rah, rah boys.
Stupid f***ers.

Haele

[Solly Mack]

37. That's a dangerous precedent.

[DashOneBravo]

41. What's the equivalent of a 2LT in the Navy?

[jmowreader]

42. Ensign

And believe you me, they're going to find the neck of one and dangle this millstone from it.

[DashOneBravo]

44. Well there is a reason

There are a lot of 2LT / Ensign jokes.

[jmowreader]

45. True 2LT story

I was in the field with a radar intercept team once. Our mission was to scan the aether for radar signals. We were getting ready to do that when a 2LT stopped us...

"Whatcha doing?"
'Getting ready to search for radars.'
"You don't have to do that. There aren't any to search for."
'How do you know, sir?'
"Because I don't hear any."

At this point the guy I was working with got very insubordinate.

[DashOneBravo]

47. See? Exactly

We always had good ones but we made sure that at least two other people were checking our position. Lol

Wanna have a good laugh do a google search on 2LT memes.

[jmowreader]

48. Here's a better one

One of the S-2 guys in 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne was a butter bar named Thurlow. He got the nickname Lockout Thurlow because he liked to change safe combinations without testing them. After the first one happened, my platoon put in a request for a graduate of the CIA Lock Picking course. After the second one, the brigade commander banished him to my unit...where, relieved of his safe-destroying tools, he turned out to be a nice kid.

[jmowreader]

43. Since Trump is currently running for reelection, DOD Directive 1344.10 applies

That wonderful little document is entitled, "Political Activities by Members of the Armed Forces." What you see here falls into the "prohibited activities" sphere.

I take it Naval Special Warfare doesn't do load cards. The Army's "investigation" of this would be short and sweet: pull that vehicle's load card and get the names of the driver and vehicle commander, then bring in those two plus their platoon sergeant, platoon leader, company commander, the battalion motor officer and motor sergeant, and anyone else in the motor pool who could have stopped this vehicle from going through the gate with a Trump flag on the antenna, read Article 31 of the UCMJ (the military version of the Miranda warning) to them, and advise that if someone doesn't give up the names of the people who did it, the entire group is going to be charged with Conspiracy (Article 81), Failure to Obey a Lawful Order or Regulation (Article 92), Damaging Military Equipment (Article 108 - you DO NOT run down the freeway with your antennas not tied down!) and Perjury (Article 131). Fifteen seconds later, "it was that motherfucker right there" will ring forth.

[Mc Mike]

49. Thanks for all the specific info in your posts, jm.

Good catch, with drumpf already filed as a candidate and the DOD Directive being pertinent because of it, too.

[Hoyt]

53. Military selects these guys and makes sure they hate Muslims and Asians. What do we expect?

[MyOwnPeace]

54. Thanks, jmowreader!

I'd like to think that our trained military would be better versed on expected and proper procedures, not like the good-ole'-boys in their pick-ups flying the Confederate flag at the Dew-Drop Inn just down the road.
At the same time, you still see "polls" showing that there are great numbers out there approving what Cheeto is doing and we can't expect him to be on his way out tomorrow, much as we'd like that to happen.
But we MUST keep up on situations like this - don't let it "vanish" and don't let anybody get away with something that is so totally wrong!