They get it from the camels.
Posted on 01/22/2010 10:53:54 PM PST by greatdefender
Trijicon, the gunsight maker that has imprinted Bible verse numbers on its scopes, has announced that it will no longer imprint the verses on the sides of scopes intended for the U.S. military, and will also provide clients with the kits to remove the Bible verse numbers from existing scopes.
An ABC News report earlier this week revealed that the Michigan-based company, which has a contract to provide up to 800,000 scopes to the U.S. military, prints references to New Testament chapters and verses in code next to the model numbers of its scopes. The scopes are used by the U.S. Marine Corps and Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by U.S. allies in those countries, and for the training of Afghan and Iraqi troops.
"Trijicon has proudly served the U.S. military for more than two decades, and our decision to offer to voluntarily remove these references is both prudent and appropriate," said Stephen Bindon, Trijicon president and CEO in a statement. "We want to thank the Department of Defense for the opportunity to work with them and will move as quickly as possible to provide the modification kits for deployment overseas."
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said the Department of Defense "applauds the voluntary actions announced today by Trijicon."
Morrell said the coded Bible reference were clearly inappropriate. Said Morrell, "It is not the policy of the Department of Defense to put religious references of any kind on its equipment."
Earlier today, Gen. David Petraeus, who commands CentCom, which oversees U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, told a D.C. thinktank that the company's practice was "disturbing …and a serious concern for me" and field commanders. He said there had been considerable discussions within the Department of Defense about how to deal with Trijicon's practice.
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>> Still love that bumper sticker:
>>God Bless our Troops
>>Especially the Snipers
I’ve recently seen that one, and an Obama LOL! sticker (with the Obama logo as the “O”). That last one was on a Volvo wagon, of all things!
There are a lot of people who “get it”, more than we might think.
I say we dip the bullets in pigs blood and advertise that fact to the local indigenous population.
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Why not just advertise the fact, and not actually do it?
The purpose is to freak out the enemy-no need to buy into their pagan superstitions. Actual porcine blood on the bullets might not be best for optimum operation of the weapons.
I used to respect General Petraeus.
Not so much anymore.
No wonder the Army tolerated a nut job like the Fort Hood shooter in it’s ranks. The Army is infested with PC hacks.
The order to remove the codes came straight from the top, from Barack Hussein Obama himself. There is no doubt about that.
Petraeus is only following orders from Obama. Obama probably ordered Petraeus to denounce the sights.
Trijicon sights bad. Veterans bad. Taliban good....
Go look at the KelTec RFB. :D
oh no muslims said that this might now be perceived as a holy war and get them mad
er they cry allah when they blow themselves up and state this is a holy war.
Am I missing something here, they say holy war, we can’t have these numbers because American muslims say it might appear to muslims overseas this is a holy war.
must be missing something
engrave a cross on the rounds and dip it in pigs blood.
BANG
there’s many more of those verses from the quran too which state kill those who do not believe.
such a nice religion
ARF
That's the truth. I'm just waiting for them to scream, "They have CROSShairs inside them!"
Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for Battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations.
Right here!
“Private Ryan - Pvt.Jackson”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOpNFK14490&feature=related
They can order to take them off the sights but they can’t remove them from their hearts.
God Bless our Troops
Especially the Snipers
For God So loved the world that he helped me bust a cap in your Jihadist @ss.
I wish someone in the military could find the bastards that squealed on this and got the jewish atheist bastard lawyer Michael Weinstein to raise a make a stink about this. What a bastard Weinstein. No one hardly knew or cared about this until this atheist bastard raised such a stink about this. He will roast in Hell forever!!! Someday at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Michael Weinstein will receive the just rewards for his evil deeds.
You may not need a rifle. Check out the video on Breitbart.tv.
“Texas Store Owner Uses Name of Jesus to Thwart Robber.”
“So I pointed my finger and said, ‘In the name of Jesus, you get out of my store. I bind you by the power of the Holy Spirit.”
http://www.breitbart.tv/texas-store-owner-uses-name-of-jesus-to-thwart-robber/
Ideally, no enemy should ever see the codes, since it would mean that he has the weapon. If, by some misfortune, he should have the weapon, the code should be meaningless to him, since it requires that he have some familiarity with the Christian Bible.
“Liberals INVENTING insult and problems where there are none.”
Just one more thing they have in common with muzzies.
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