Posted on 02/03/2017 5:10:41 AM PST by markomalley
Steve Thompson was on his way to pick up some feed for his goat farm Sunday morning when he noticed an impressive-looking military convoy and started filming. When he neared the lead vehicle in the convoy, the 32-year-old Shepherdsville, Ky., man noticed something else: A large blue and white Trump campaign flag.
"I just thought it was just a bunch of military vehicles," Thompson, who was driving near Louisville at the time, told the Lexington Herald Leader . "I was surprised because I figured you wouldn't be able to fly anything on a Humvee other than an American flag."
The Navy has since confirmed that the convoy was from a Virginia Beach-based special warfare unit.
Thompson's video is one of two that have been circulating on social media this week, drawing both praise and outrage, and prompting the Navy to open an investigation into the flag-flying display. One of the Facebook videos showing the convoy was viewed close to 80,000 times before it was taken down Thursday afternoon - but not before unleashing a flood of comments.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
If it was taken AFTER the election, then the investigation should stop there, period. No action necessary.
Nothing wrong with supporting your commander!
President Trump is their commander-in-chief. He is the top of their chain of command. So, the troops are not allowed to show a flag with the name of their commander-in-chief?
The Leftards are freaking out that the troops actually like and respect the new POTUS. This reminds me of when Carter went out and Reagan came in: it was electrifying within the formerly demoralized military.
I am deeply offended.
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Investigate those investigating this. Sick of secret service saying they won’t protect the president, a former Obama Pentagon appointee saying we need a military coup and all the other seditious crap the Democrat groups are doing. Someone needs to answer for this.
Screw em, he’s our Commander in Chief.
I’ve got his picture on my wall, like I had to have Bammy’s picture on my wall.
If anyone has a right to fly a flag in support it’s these guys.
1) It is inappropriate and probably against the code of conduct.
2) Good luck getting these guys to support an anti Trump coup.
sounds like a troll.
everybody goes around videotaping military convoys.
Okay unit, hold out your hands, I am going to officially slap them with this ruler. Now get back to making America Great Again...
I just put the first post on the Stars and Stripes article. Post on it, and then we can “like” our posts, and stay ahead of the Leftards who will be coming along to call Trump a Nazi.
I am so relieved that our brave Military, after 8 long years of destruction, has a CIC that they can love and respect. Now, I acknowledge that probably 5% aren’t supportive of Trump, but that means that 95% are. GO TRUMP!
There were a few BO supporters in the military. And you should have heard those little jerks publicly support BO every time he stabbed the military in the back. “We’re just supporting the cinc” they always said, “and you can’t say anything, because that would violate Hatch Act.” They really rubbed the right’s nose in it.
If they had been displaying the Obama Kenyan Logo flag, this would be celebrated by the snowflakes in the “media”.
“Okay unit, hold out your hands, I am going to officially slap them with this ruler. Now get back to making America Great Again...”
As a former Navy officer in a civilian setting told me after a similar type of incident, “Consider your pee-pee slapped, now get out of here.”
YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRquLskAu0
Published on Jan 31, 2017This is a video linked from a story posted on “The Tennessean” news website, reported by Andrew Wolfson.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/...
Happened after Trump became President
This post appeared yesterday and was determined by the DOD to not be any military unit but surplus vehicles flying some sort of flag which DOES NOT say ‘Trump’.
Probably some tagger ran up behind the the vehicle and put in there to get them in trouble.
Why?
Would this garner as much attention if it were an Obama flag 5 years ago? No.
Find out who is driving this investigation...all of them...and replace them with patriots.
Q: Why is it okay to display Trump’s glowering mug (please note: I LOVE that pic) on walls and halls, but not fly a flag with his name on it?
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