Everybody knows what the Nordic-stylized Siegrunen and the SS stood for - and anybody remember the issues with neo-Nazi types in the military not all that long ago (hint: it was a BIG problem in the 82nd where avowed racists killed two black guys) - and now an American military unit displaying a banner which is the antithesis of what America stands for along with the American flag...
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
I'd like to ask my dead uncle (who fought his way across Europe as an Infantry Platoon Sergeant in the 120th Infantry Regiment of the 30th Infantry Division) and my dead father-in-law (who did the same as a Platoon Leader in the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion of the 11th Armored Division) what they think of these guys and their 'cool' banner.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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