Trump administration insiders are furious over reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, will no longer classify the swastika as a symbol of "hate."According to the Washington Post, the branch of military service has decided that swastikas and nooses ...
  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If you know about MARADMIN, can you elaborate on what he means? I looked it up and understand it as a kind of code of conduct, but don’t see what changed in 2007, just that he said a USMC based tattoo was what prevented him.

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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        6 days ago

        Thank you for this. I gave it a good (confusing) read, they could stand to type in less capitals.

        I can see the regulations outlined, but not that he was turned away for it being a known nazi symbol or anything based on that description, it sounds like he got a tattoo without clearing it or reporting it on his paperwork and chose not to appeal, based on his words there in the reddit post.

        I appreciate you finding that for me, it was hard to parse all the google garbage

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Thanks anyway! Yeah military jargon and acronyms out the ass go hand in hand and any manager that’s a vet I’ve worked for just tosses them around like ‘sentence enhancers’.