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Montana Army National Guard apologizes following recruitment poster outrage - German WWII soldiers mistakenly added in
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Posted on 02/18/2024 1:47:06 PM PST by 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."

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TOPICS: US: Montana
KEYWORDS: germansoldier; military; montanaguard; nationalguard
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To: Flatus I. Maximus; sphinx

I don’t quite follow, are you saying the earlier Brit Carriers included major (12” or better) gun turrets?


41 posted on 02/18/2024 4:45:59 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Good, I’m glad you kept out of trouble, and yes, you’d be doing time now for “Crimes Against Humanity” for what you did.


42 posted on 02/18/2024 5:15:13 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: 11th_VA

I remember when NJ threatened tax cheats with Fallschirmjager to the tune of Blondie’s One Way or Another….

Also, early war, the German WH collars were green.


43 posted on 02/18/2024 5:29:09 PM PST by Vesuvian
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To: 11th_VA

Maybe they were Americans from the George Washington Brigade.😉


44 posted on 02/18/2024 5:41:18 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: sphinx
Erhhh.... I know it's wikipedia, but...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_V-class_battleship_(1939)

A battleship is not an aircraft carrier.

45 posted on 02/18/2024 6:18:30 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: 11th_VA

Wearing splinter pattern cammo on helmet- definitely Wehrmacht- buy in Montana-


46 posted on 02/18/2024 6:34:56 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: grey_whiskers

The caption says “Churchill on carrier in Newfoundland, 1941.” If the caption refers to the big picture, that’s a battleship he’s walking on, not an aircraft carrier. If it refers to the inset picture of Churchill, FDR, and Stalin, that’s in Yalta, in 1945, not in Newfoundland in 1941.

My comment was a bit of obscure and pedantic humor. The Japanese did build some hybrid battleship/aircraft carriers, but they proved not useful in either role.


47 posted on 02/18/2024 6:41:48 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus

A US carrier (Lexington?) sported turrets for a little while and then they got rid of them after figuring out that they were largely useless.


48 posted on 02/18/2024 7:43:18 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: EnderWiggin1970

What tipped you off?

I explained this to the staff. If it had been me, I’d have doubled back on the subcontractor and told them to correct, reprint and express ship the corrected poster. This is now. It would all be on a digital file. Pending that, I’d dummy up a corrected caption and paste it over the original. But this is now. A lot of people neither know nor care enough to be embarrassed about such mistakes.


49 posted on 02/18/2024 7:45:47 PM PST by sphinx
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To: DesertRhino
He looks well fed.

He is also a command sergeant major (E-9). Probably around 42-47 years old.

50 posted on 02/18/2024 7:46:44 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Yep.....just kick the Montana Natl Guard while they are down. LOL


51 posted on 02/18/2024 9:56:26 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: 11th_VA

Be aware that many public relations and communications firms are staffed by clueless 20 somethings who have no grounding in history whatsoever. The background photo used was probably a stock photo from a buyout library the graphics department had at hand. The creative team simply thought this darkened and softened background was adequate to the topic. The producer and client team only cared about the foreground and print graphic elements. And they all could care less what some old person who knows what Wehrmacht uniforms look like would think… until they got caught. The entire industry is now run by snot nosed weasels who think they know better and there are no adults in the process to oversee the creative process. Witness the marketing driven disaster at Anheuser-Busch that destroyed their company image.


52 posted on 02/19/2024 6:07:06 AM PST by Pennsyltucky Boy (bitterly clinging to our constitutional rights in PA)
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To: 11th_VA

53 posted on 02/19/2024 6:08:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gaffer

54 posted on 02/19/2024 6:14:12 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: 11th_VA

The did Nazi it.


55 posted on 02/19/2024 6:31:26 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

s/b They did Nazi it.


56 posted on 02/19/2024 6:31:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cgbg
"We apologize for accidentally slipping into the wrong timeline where the Germans won World War II” (Ref: Man in the High Castle)"

Yeah the explanation can only be, some Antifart wannaba at the graphics company objected to 'promoting Christofascist militarism' in Montana -- not out of the question; or some "Battlefield V" goon obsessed with playing the WWII loser at the same graphics company decided to really give them their money's worth lol.

57 posted on 02/19/2024 11:19:23 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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