Posted on 02/15/2015 9:52:54 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Wounded warrior retired Senior Airman Brian Kolfage was startled by a strange sight as he wound his way through Davis Mountain Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz. — Old Glory, with rainbow stripes replacing the alternating red and white.
It was a sight one might see at University of California, Berkeley, perhaps — but a military base?
“For those of you with military ties, you’ll understand the stark contrast between military and civilian life, and ultimately know duty comes before self,” he wrote for The Blaze. “More specifically, it’s one of the Air Force’s three core values that is drilled into us in Basic Military Training.”
More than that, Kolfage notes that the flag violates Title 4, Section 1 of the U.S. Code, which provides:
Flag; stripes and stars on: The flag of the United States shall be thirteen horizontal stripes, alternate red and white; and the union of the flag shall be fifty stars, white in a blue field.
“It’s sad when someone who has gone to war and faced combat cannot display a Christian flag or even a Gadsden flag because it may be offensive,” he observed. “However, a flag that is in violation of the U.S. Code that mandates base regulations and policy is allowed?!”
When he questioned the display of the flag to the Public Affairs Office of the 355th Fighter Wing, he received this ruling:
The installation commander carefully considered the opinions of legal professionals and the law. The display in question is not an altered U.S. flag; therefore, its display does not violate federal law. No action will be taken. -snip- Kolfage notes that this perversion is “flying on an Air Force base that won the 2012 Commander In Chief’s Best Installation in the Air Force.”
That would be the same commander in chief who places political correctness on a higher plane than he does moral or military correctness. “Should that tell us something?” he asked. It speaks volumes.
Kolfage became a triple amputee on his second deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 11, 2004, when he was directly hit by a large artillery round. Today he serves on Rep. Ron Barber’s, D-Ariz., veteran advisory committee and serves as an inspiration to other wounded warriors.
C'mon, LGBT/FUBAR community, is that the best you can do? Stealing other peoples' ideas and taking them as our own? I thought you people were, as a demographic, more talented and creative than that. But then again, they way they "piggyback" on the civil rights movement and past atrocities ike Jim Crow, the Holocaust,. etc. it's par for the course.
BOHICA
How about "Davis Monthan", aka the boneyard, in Tucson AZ?
When you see gaffes like that, it makes you question the whole story.
filthy disease ridden queers delenda est...
BizPacReview is just another blog-whoring site. Do you really expect editing?
A typo doesn’t indicate the story being told is not believable. The story itself is rather detailed.
It insulting to be that the abominatin of a flag is not an altered flag and therefore can be flown.
I really hope someone on tat base outs up a Gadsen flag.
We are so close to the edge of completely losing our country
An entirely different word is not a “typo”, it is an indication of not caring to proofread for accuracy which was once a hallmark of a professional. It was also once a hallmark of the editorial standards of the publication. It appears Internet publishing has superseded that once normal expectation.
After viewing his Facebook page, I’m going to stick my neck out here and say some junior editor thought they were doing the author a good turn by correcting the author’s “goof.”
A few letters off. Close enough that it could be an autocorrect. Also that name is often confusing to people who don’t know it. The writer of the story isn’t the vet who told the story. I cannot see how it invalidates any of what he said.
He describes in detail the flag he saw, what base office he contacted, and their ruling on his complaint.
I notice it was close enough that other people on the thread knew right away that it referred to the boneyard.
While you argue silly points, the point of the story is that the fag flag still flies there, while a USAF vet who lost three limbs was brushed off when he pointed it out.
Look up “prig”. It kind of fits this.
“and say some junior editor thought they were doing the author a good turn by correcting the author’s “goof.””
That’s probably a very plausible theory. And its sad, that we no longer live in the days of printed journalism. You know, back when nobody ever made a mistake/
Disgraceful. But this is where the military is going. Who would ever even think of flying this at a military installation? It is beyond me. I cannot even comprehend someone wearing the uniform who would think this was okay, but...now we know.
Yes, most errors/typos/incorrect usage can be interpreted to understand the intended meaning. The likelihood of an “autocorrect” seems minimal, given the length of the article not lending itself to being done on a mobile device, the usual offender in an “autocorrect” situation. I did not assert any such thing as invalidation, merely making an observation on the condition of what attempts to pass as acceptable written usage in the current day. You may not agree with that observation but I don’t see how that qualifies you to then sling an ad hominem as an acceptable disagreement.
I agree that the flying of any flag besides the correctly displayed Stars and Stripes on a military facility is an affront to patriotic persons. The vet was absolutely correct and the “response” from a base official was politically correct pap.
It may be a blog-whoring site, but we aren’t going to hear about this from CBS or NBC. For all I know, these things may be flying outside bases and on ships, I wouldn’t know it was even happening if someone didn’t print it.
I will forgive the inaccuracy for the content, if true.
This isn't the first time I've seen that mistake. It could be an auto-correct problem. But I always reread afterwards before posting...
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