82nd Airborne Responds to Neo-Nazi Wearing Their Hat
Leave it to an idiot neo-Nazi to wear an 82nd Airborne hat to the recent protest in Charlottesville:
The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II. So after a man in a hat bearing the elite Army paratrooper unit’s insignia was pictured throwing a Ku Klux Klan salute (which resembles and is sometimes mistaken for a Nazi salute) during the weekend’s Charlottesville protests, the division delivered a pointed message. [Yahoo News]
You can read more at the link, but some people actually thought this idiot was in the 82nd Airborne. Here is the 82nd’s Twitter response to this guy wearing an 82nd Airborne hat:
Anyone can purchase that hat. Valor is earned. pic.twitter.com/qk6rQHBwui
— All American 💯 (@82ndABNDiv) August 14, 2017
Note to all racists out there, if you are going to spew your hatred don’t drag the US military into it by wearing its gear. If anything these racists should dislike the US military considering how it is in my opinion the most merit based organization in the US where someone of any race through performance can rise to the top.
Whoever posted the response for the 82nd nailed it. Too bad they need to be professional about it and not call that “Crow” dude out for being the smug ass-wipe he was. ❗
Any doubt at all that Crow is ANTIFA?
After Somalia (1994 or so) part of the reason why the Canadians disbanded the parachute regiment was that a Royal Commission had determined that the unit was rife with neo-nazis, white supremacists, and their ilk. There were a number of racial incidents while the regiment was deployed as part of UNOSOM. One reason cited for the growth of this sort of thing in the parachute regiment was that it was something troops were picking up while doing joint training with the 82nd at Bragg. I found that sort of odd, as I considered the 82nd to be one of the best integrated units in the Army, or at least it used to be. My son was in the Army from 2001-2011, though, and he basically told me “whatever is going on in society at large in terms of extremism is going to be present in the Army as well, and more so since the moral waivers for enlistment started”. Still, race problems in the late 60’s-70’s at Bragg were as bad as any I know of, especially in the COSCOM units. To combat this, Bragg maintained one of the very best EO/RR training programs I saw in any of the services, and commanders and most NCO’s took it seriously.
The villas outside camps I served at in Korea were kind of informally segregated well into the 80’s. Especially Anjeong-ri. Completely separate clubs.
I lived in Fayetteville (where Ft Bragg is….Pope AFB where my spouse was stationed is inside Ft Bragg) for about a year.
Saw my first car jacking there. Taught science at a middle school (very dangerous…the assistant principal was beaten into a coma at a parent teacher meeting).
Wow, was that a crime ridden area.
I feel badly for the military folks who are stationed there.
“The villas outside camps I served at in Korea were kind of informally segregated well into the 80’s. Especially Anjeong-ri. Completely separate clubs.”
I was stationed at Humphreys (Anjeong-ri) in the 80s. In my opinion, the racial separation was due more to cultural differences (such as club atmosphere and ) type of music played) than to any racial tensions.