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The Navy says it is reviewing whether service members violated Defense Department policy or regulations by wearing a uniform patch with the words "Make Aircrews Great Again" during President Donald Trump's visit to their ship in Japan.
The phrase emblazoned on the patch, along with a likeness of Trump, is a play on his campaign slogan. The military has uniform dress codes and regulations against partisan political acts while in uniform.
In a brief statement Tuesday, the Navy said only that the matter was under review by Navy leadership to ensure that the wearing of the patches did not violate policy or regulations.
Trump visited the USS Wasp assault ship on Tuesday before returning to Washington from four days in Japan.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/navy-reviewing-wearing-trump-patches-aboard-ship-63329190
sellitman
(11,607 posts)How horrible!
C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)What a joke
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Robert Kennedy
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)ooky
(8,929 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)Hope they're better at their jobs than their artwork. Or their adherence to regs.
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)for wearing that crap. What review...it IS in violation. Punish the idiots right now.
"This is a violation of Article 134 of the UCMJ. This cant be tolerated! When I swore my oath in 1975 it was to my country, not to a potus, and nothing has changed. Wearing patches or insignia in fealty to President is no different than showing fealty to a dictator. @tedlieu"
Delmette2.0
(4,170 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)Hekate
(90,827 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)issue.
At least that's the way it was when I was in the Army. Of course, back then it was more likely "Fuck Nixon".
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)We wore our command patch (in my case, the Military Airlift Command), the squadron patch and the American flag patch.
The squadron patch would represent some aspect of the squadron's mission or history. Even using a variation of #MAGA -- without the image of Fat Donnie pointing his short finger at you -- would have been too blatantly political for a patch.
Freethinker65
(10,055 posts)I honestly would not have known who the center character was supposed to resemble without the MAGA reference.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm not sure how this escapes being a political statement. I hope the fellows wearing these patches are appropriately sanctioned. Trump will probably look into pardoning them (because he knows how to run the military better than the military does).
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)No need for the lash.
sarabelle
(453 posts)Supporting an enemy of the US, i thought was against the law? Trump is certainly one of the country' biggest enemies.
Match his words up with any of the dictators of current society.