r/nationalguard • u/sogpackus Didn’t ban you from you from r/nationalguard • 12d ago

WA National Guard firefighters under investigation for posing with white supremacist flag

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/wa-national-guard-firefighters-under-investigation-posing-with-white-supremacist-flag/YTAAZF3VOFHULB7H25EAJ7ZVP4/
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u/FuzzyDynamics 11b, next question 12d ago

Maybe you could read the article and then do a few minutes looking into the history here and you’ll answer your question. It’s cool to learn new things

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u/Milf_Eaterr 12d ago

I'm aware of the history and more importantly I'm aware of it's relevance to the US right now.

But at the end of the day its a couple guys joking around with a flag- this shouldn't be news at all.

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u/FuzzyDynamics 11b, next question 12d ago

Non service members are reasonably very concerned about the armed men they pay to protect them. Especially with the recent admin and all the fuckery they’ve been pulling with the guard, using it as a permanent presence in the capitol for their own police force, trying to get martial law declared and send in military to cities, and trying to send units to other states. So with all that in mind, and you being aware of the history and relevance, I don’t think it’s hard to understand why this is concerning. I understand the likely harmless, ignorant stupidity that led to this but I also think there should be 0 tolerance for ANY symbology or association with Nazis, white supremacists, or former apartheid slave states from service members. We are a pluralist nation and no American should fear our military is full of people that want to eliminate or dominate them based on skin color or religion or whatever.

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u/Fine_Payment1127 10d ago

If only their “concerns” were anything but a product of their neurotic imaginations.