Montana Army National Guard apologizes following recruitment poster outrage - German WWII soldiers mistakenly added in

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[11th_VA]

BILLINGS — A Montana Army National Guard recruitment poster is being taken down statewide after an editing mistake was pointed out on social media.

The poster reads: "It’s more than college money….It’s the spirit of tradition." But in the background, images of German Nazi World War II soldiers are prominent, which sparked outrage online.

"I’m sure that somewhere, the (Public Affairs) office for the National Guard is squirming, to say the least,” said Randy Stiles, a district commander for the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Billings, on Friday.

Last fall, the poster was distributed across Montana.

"I can see their idea about tradition through the decades. Well, never at any point has the National Guard supported the Nazi party, or Germany for that matter,” Stiles said. "More than likely, it was like, ‘Hey, the National Guard wants us to do this. We’re an ad agency.’ So they went over, they got some Adobe stock. ‘Oh that’s cool looking, I’ll put that down.’ Well, the person probably doing it was probably an assistant of an assistant of an assistant. And, well, really didn’t know our history."

[Starboard]

Well, the person probably doing it was probably an assistant of an assistant of an assistant. And, well, really didn’t know our history."

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No surprise there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Well those helmets do look like the Philistine helmets in the old Peplum Sword-and-sandal movie HERCULES, SAMSON AND ULYSSES from 1963.

[Gaffer]

That’s my guess, too.

[Gaffer]

US helmets have evolved. IIRC, at one point in the recent past, they came to look sort of like a German helmet (i.e., shortened brim around to just before the ears. Better vision.

From some of the stuff I see now, many of them are like skateboarder helmets.

[Starboard]

“It’s just ignorance.”

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On MULTIPLE levels. How many people in chain either failed to review this or, if they did, didn’t see this epic mistake.

Makes you wonder about how they handle greater responsibilities.

[Gaffer]

Here’s a fun fact. Remember WWI German helmets with the “Frankenstuds” on them? The bolt-looking horns on the temples that look like Frankenstein neck bolts? What were they for?

Answer: They’re call ventilation studs and made to affix a heavy steel brow plate on. Used for sniper and machine gun protection in the trenches. German helmets in WWII had remnants of them, but I don’t think they actually used them for the original purpose then.

[MikelTackNailer]

Really though, while stationed in a former SS base outside Frankfurt (Hoechst) I was awoken by a homo trying to feel me up who was a guest of my assigned queer room-mate. "Why does this guy dress himself in leather, put in an ear ring and go out every night?" I was utterly clueless until I was beating his guest half to death while that room-mate kept trying to make me stop, which I did when assigned security jumped in. 1985.

Now days they'd give him a medal and toss me in Leavenworth.

[StAnDeliver]

"But with the black collars, it is likely they are SS."

Yep. There is no way, none, zero, that this was a 'mistake'.

[DesertRhino]

He looks well fed.

[DesertRhino]

What they were actually for is mounting points for those long horse hair manes that they were on horse back on parade.

[Gaffer]

Do a we search. Brow plate mounts

[CodeToad]

I was in the military primarily in the 1980’s. We had a few fatties, but, man, the military seems to be chubby everywhere I see them.

[cgbg]

They need better excuses.

How about this one.

“We apologize for accidentally slipping into the wrong timeline where the Germans won World War II”

(Ref: Man in the High Castle)

;-)

[sphinx]

Modern Fine Arts grads.

I found this a few years ago in the Folger Shakespeare Library here in DC. I took a picture and reported the error to the Folger staff. I checked back a couple of months later. (It's in the neighborhood.) They of course hadn't corrected the poster.

The exhibition itself was very good. The Folger is a fine organization, with an excellent research library on The Bard and an Elizabethan thrust stage, which they use to present period plays and musical concerts.

The exhibition itself was developed in England and shipped here. Too many kiddies in the loop, and apparently no adults proofed closely.

The error (if you haven't spotted it)? No spoilers. Look again.

[libertylover]

What were they thinking???

[grey_whiskers]

Let me guess, the Ark Royal...

[sphinx]

The first friend I sent this to immediately identified it as one of the famed King George V class of aircraft carriers.

It is, of course, the Prince of Wales, which took Churchill to the Atlantic Charter meeting with FDR in August 1941. Along with Repulse, she was sunk by the Japanese on December 10.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

I thought only the Japanese put battleship turrets on aircraft carriers.

[sphinx]

Show this to some young people of your acquaintance. See if any of them catch it. Most won’t.

[grey_whiskers]

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