How many Marine Scout Snipers do you know personally? I have one in my family. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
When they use SS it means Scout Sniper. Period. End of story.
I go to a Sunday School picnic every year. The sign they put out on the road at the beginning of the driveway says “SS Picnic”. The S’s are like lightning bolts. This picnic has been attended by countless WWII veterans who fought in the ETO. They fought and killed Nazi’s. NOT ONE of these veterans has ever said a word. No one driving by the sign has ever complained.
Since I don’t cut slack to anyone on the “frontline” of his keyboard, I resent and reject your cheap shot that “anyone here(Free Republic)who tries to pretend it’s anything other than the notorious runic symbols is full of crap.”
The only person “full of crap” is the person who would write such a stupid comment.
And it is not the use of the letters SS that is problematic in the picture - it is the nazi-runic form of the SS.
As I said, I cut the guys in the field miles of slack...not so with those here who try to spin and whitewash what was a dumb move -- dumb in the inescapable fact that it gives the anti-military left a convenient and hard to argue talking point.
Your point seems well taken to me.
Probably some smart NCO should’ve (and, probably did) realize how the “SS” symbol could be interpreted negatively by the general public; and, thus reflect poorly upon the Marine Corps. Corrective action should’ve taken place at the NCO level ...and from what I’ve heard reported probably did. That should’ve been it ...end of story.
I would suspect individuals w/an anti-Marine Corps “agenda” are involved in the recent mass promulgation of controversial images of Marines in order to create a negative impression of the Marine Corps w/the general public.
Regards,
-Geoff