Posted on 08/12/2020 11:41:20 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
Aviators in a small training detachment aboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford were recently counseled by leadership after wearing an unauthorized and inappropriate patch, the Navy said.
Half of the patch, according to a photo on Twitter, included the aircraft carrier's logo with the words "America's Newest Carrier" and "Integrity at the Helm." The other half, however, depicted an image of a bat with the words "China's Newest Carrier," a reference to one theory about the origins of the novel coronavirus.
"The patch in question was inappropriate and not consistent with uniform regulations, which state patches must be appropriate in nature and approved by commanding officers," Cmdr. Jennifer Cragg, spokeswoman for Naval Air Force Atlantic, said in an email Thursday.
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I should have closed my tags and also clarified my comment. I was Air Force. Rules may have been different. Like I said, within the unit and on our aircraft, they were okay. Outside the unit it was whatever the formal unit patch was.
They were, as were all things like this, subject to the Unit Commander’s approval.
Up yours, Commander Jennifer Cragg.
Besides, the Chinese virus is believed by many to be man-made.
Where can I buy one?
Key position in all military units:
It worked for the communists in the Soviet & Chinese military...
It is working just fine for the communists gradually taking control of the American military...
POTUS needs to identify the officer that thought this was important and reassign them to someplace nasty - PCS for 20 years.
Leave them the hell alone!
You want them to kill people and break things when the time comes. They had better walk with a swagger and have the mind set to do it now.
This kind of PC crap is going to bury us.
Chicom feelings matter!
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