Pentagon Asks Troops to Stop Displaying Big US Flags

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The Biden regime is at war against America. 2020 was a coup.

The Defense Department has urged military service members to stop using the U.S. flag in popular patriotic demonstrations that are nonetheless violations of the national flag code.

By: Justin Cooper, American Military news, Fevruary 28, 2023:

A memo issued Feb. 10 said it is no longer acceptable for troops to carry the U.S. flag horizontally, such as on the field at sporting events, or for the flag to land on the ground after flying behind a parachutist, Stars and Stripes reported.

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The memo bars uniformed troops from directly participating in the “unfurling, holding, and/or carrying of giant horizontal U.S. flags.” It also prohibits military jump teams from using the flag in their performances if it “cannot be caught reliably and handled respectfully by ground personnel.”

“In recent years, some sporting events have asked military members to hold large, horizontal flags during events, and some military units have carried them in parades,” DoD spokesperson Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman said in a statement. “While many, including service members, find these events moving and patriotic, according to the code, the flag should never touch the ground or be carried flat or horizontally.“

Title 4 of the United States Code, also known as the Flag Code, specifies that “the flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.” That section also states that “the flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground.”

The new memo was sent to military public affairs offices. Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, encouraged “public affairs officers to work with sponsors of community events to develop other ways to showcase the patriotism and capabilities of our military that comply with DoD policy.”

The Pentagon also revisited flag rules in 2020, when Secretary of Defense Mark Esper issued a military-wide policy specifying which flags can be flown at military installations, buildings and vehicles. That policy was seen as prohibiting the flying of Confederate flags without specifically naming them, as reported by Stars and Stripes.

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From a Remote Location
From a Remote Location
1 year ago

Yet it’s okay for the Pentagon to have displays with the obscene, vulgar, “pride”[sic] flag that is every inch supremacist, colonialist, imperialist, and staking of a territorial claim.

Dreddog
Dreddog
1 year ago

The pride flag is not allowed to be flown on military bases or official Pentagon locations. Neither is the Confederate flag! Maybe you should brush up on your information before you post your untruths.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago
Reply to  Dreddog

They allowed the No pride flag to fly at the Capitol, which should also not be allowed.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Stomp on or burn an American flag and nothing happens. Burn a No Pride flag and go to Jail.

poptoy1949
poptoy1949
1 year ago

Screw the Pentagon. This is still a Free country.

STONEY
STONEY
1 year ago

well then ok…..start burning BLM, pride, ect flags….THATS OK!

fir1
fir1
1 year ago

Creepy sleepy is nothing more than a sock puppet put in place to allow who’s really destroying this country to get away with it – he will do whatever he’s told and even has trouble with that most of the time.

IntrepidD
Intrepid
1 year ago

Aunt Milley’s military is an embarrassment

slimslob
slimslob
1 year ago

Then why in the past did the Defense Department make the giant flags available for units, including Reserve and National Guard, to use for parades, etc.

TRM
TRM
1 year ago

2020 was an attempted coup all right–by Trump and his mob. Fortunately, it failed.

PatDD
PatD
1 year ago
Reply to  TRM

Keep spewing ignorant moron!!!!!

Daniel
Daniel
1 year ago
Reply to  PatD

Seriously…

Do NOT reply to or down-vote posts by degenerates such as “Turkeychoker” and TRM. They are Soros-paid agitprop trolls and they are paid by the number of interactions (reply, down vote) they can prove. The more interaction they can prove, the more propaganda and division they spread, the more money they make.

To bankrupt the trolls and destroy their industry, one person should flag a troll post and the rest should block and ignore it.

PatDD
PatD
1 year ago
Reply to  TRM

Keep spewing ignorant moron! And anyone who actually believes that the POS obiden got 81 million votes don’t have a functioning brain cell!

Robert L. Kahlcke
Robert L. Kahlcke
1 year ago

FUCK JOE BIDEN and the rest of his PIGS.

PatDD
PatD
1 year ago

Libtard morons hate the USA, Americans and our flag!!!!!

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