It won’t be the 1st time a Marine compared himself to the SS. I’ve heard other marines boast about that in the past. One told me when he was in Northern Germany a German asked what uniform he was wearing and he told the party it was a unit like the SS. Seems like there are many out there that wish they were in the Waffen SS. Yeah, they were the best trained and weapon supplied troops of that war and admit-ably no one in WW II took them lightly when faced with them. We never had a force like that, that was so feared, so there is no real comparison. It was at the time a prestigious unit for the Germans to belong to. I’m sure the former members of the “Waffen” SS were proud of their battle field experiences.
I often listened to Germans who claim they had family members who were in the SS. I heard that so often (true or not)I began to think that the Wehrmacht didn’t exist. No one ever admitted that they or a family member were ever in the SS “SD” units, which is understandable. The marine SS flag with the runes is nothing more than youth bravado. I’d say; “OK you had your fun with it, so, now can it.” I seem to recall that in the movie Platoon, there was a scene where an APC came to the rescue flying a WWII German battle flag, so maybe he got the idea after watching it?
BTW, I was assigned to US Army Special Services as an enlisted man, Gee, why didn’t I think of that? So all this time I too can say I was in the American Army SS. LOL.
This beyond comparison unit you mention,,, that we never had anything so good,, that the same one that the US military regularly wiped out,, and that the Russians wiped out? And the WWII USMC was superior to the SS ,,
Except the SS was amazing when they stripped Ukrainian woman naked and shot em by the tens of thousands. Proof of the Nazi homo connection if you’ve ever seen Ukranian women.