US Marines using Nazi insignia.

[edhopper]

Since the pro-Putin crowd seem to think showing a couple is Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia means we should support the Russian invasion of that country, I wonder how the feel we should react to the same thing in our own Armed Forces.

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[Fred Sanders]

1. As soon as you spit out "pro-Putin" you lose all credibility.

And a flag group shot is not "wearing insignia"

[tonedevil]

2. Are we to assume...

the SS stands for super shooters?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Two photos without a narrative is awesomely unconvincing.

[edhopper]

4. Point made.

[IronGate]

11. Not even close.

It stands for Scout Snipers.

[Rex]

13. Wow they even use the death head! Learned something new today.

[IronGate]

14. That's not the SS death head symbol.

This is the SS death head.

[Rex]

15. Didn't say it was, just that it is the Death Head.

Lot's of cultures used it before the Nazi's came along FYI.

[Journeyman]

5. Those aren't lightning bolts - they're a stylized 44. They're just happy to have Obama as President…

i.e.: Post an unattributed, unspecified, unexplained set of photos, get an equally ridiculous response in reply.

[edhopper]

7. Exactly

What I'm doing is pointing out the ridiculous nature of some of the Ukraine posts.

[NuclearDem]

6. There's zero excuse for using the sig runes.

And fortunately, the USMC put a stop to that.

[greytdemocrat]

8. **sigh**

See, there's this thing called PhotoShop...

[edhopper]

9. It's real

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20120209/NEWS/202090327/Marine-scout-snipers-used-Nazi-SS-logo

And it's an isolated incident. I was making a point about the anti-Ukraine posters here.

[Fred Sanders]

17. The difference is that the Ukraine Nazi insignia photos came with context and a long narrative, your

post is nothing but air, makes no point at all.

Ukraine Army Nazis, official units, are real, American Army Nazis not so much.

[edhopper]

18. Official units?

And you make my point once again.

[stevenleser]

12. For context...

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20120209/NEWS/202090327/Marine-scout-snipers-used-Nazi-SS-logo

The inspector general at I Marine Expeditionary Force at Pendleton was made aware of the "SS" flag photograph in November, said Capt. Gregory Wolf, a spokesman at Marine Corps headquarters. The Marines involved were ordered to stop using the logo. Marine officials at the Pentagon declined to comment on whether the Marines faced any discipline, saying the issue was handled on the unit level at Pendleton.

A Marine official, speaking on background due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the Corps' leadership was not aware of the SS logo's use until it came to their attention late last year.

The Corps has addressed the use of the SS logo before, however. A PowerPoint presentation posted on a Marine Corps website said it should not be used in any tattoos. The logo was used by German special police during World War II and is still used by neo-Nazis and graffiti to characterize anti-Semitism, white supremacy and facism, according to http://www.yuma.usmc.mil/services/eo/documents/tattoos.ppt">the presentation.

The MRFF said Thursday in a letter sent to Commandant Gen. Jim Amos, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other top Pentagon officials that it was contacted by 45 active-duty Marines concerned about the photographs.

"The implication of these photographs, if true, should be readily apparent," the letter said. "If the use of the Nazi insignia has been, in any way, condoned or tolerated by the Marine Corp.[sic], the implications are abhorrent to everything for which our country is fighting and the constitutional principles for which it stands."

[Fred Sanders]

16. Thank you. Two photos without context is a lie.