[Yorlik803]

With all due respect It doesnt matter what the lighting bolts mean. The runes are connected with Waffen SS forever.
Your average joe blow on the street sees that and thinks the USMC has been taken over by skinheads.And the military hating media,the same people who calls every rifle a assault rifle, will re-enforce it because they are either too stupid or too lazy to look into it.
I am a military buff and I have friends who were either active Marines or retired never mentioned this. But then again it never came up and it could be a brotherhood thing that they only talk about to other Marines.
perception becomes reality...and the military has to be as pure as Caesars wife these days.

[Salvavida]

Appreciate your comments.

I merely put forward facts that have not been mentioned on this thread, nor in the media. As for your acquaintances in the Marines that have never mentioned it, I wholly agree that it is a brotherhood thing. It’s not a newsworthy topic in the Marines because it’s a non-issue. We who know, know what it means.

I did suggest however, that there are many, many senior ranking Marines that know about it. You will see this discussion come out in the Marine Times.

If the Marine Corps, ever protective of its image had thought there was a connection, they would have squashed it long ago. So instead of saying the Marines are guilty (as some have suggested in this thread), the Marines should get out ahead of this media story, state the facts, and carry on.

As for the stupid, hyperventilating public, I don’t see anyone getting twisted over the motorcyclers wearing Nazi-style helmuts: this will blow over once the facts are stated.