re: #97 ausador

You were right as to the bare facts. However, you dismissed any significance whatsoever:

The Marines are trained and taught that they are “badass MoFo’s”, “the tip of the spear”, the esprit of America’s regular fighting forces. If this use of dual lightning bolts to represent a double “S” (as in the “Scout Snipers”) surprises you then you might want to look back on regimental emblems during Korea and Vietnam. Units of of both the Army and the Marines appropriated quite a few symbols from German army/S.S. units as their regimental emblems simply because they thought they were “badass” or “cool” looking. (Your mostly dealing with 19-21 year olds here)

This is not in any way a racist or anti-semetic or nazi expression, these are young men, snipers tasked with killing people from long range that they will (hopefully) never see up close, using what they consider a neat/cool/badass/whatever symbol for their unit. (S.S. for Scout Snipers)

I can’t believe that anyone would even make an issue of this, this is more an outrageous outrage of the left/perception issue than a real life problem.

Obviously, the Army disagrees.