Shooting At Naval Reserve Center in TN (2 Viewers)

[Rayderr]

At least Obama finally lowered the White House flag to half mast. So tone deaf for him to have waited so long to do it.

Yeah but WTH:

Marine recruiters told not to wear uniforms after attackThe military services have taken swift action to increase security after Thursday's shootings in Tennessee, even closing some facilities and telling Marine recruiters not to wear uniforms in public.

Defense Secretary Ash Cater approved immediate steps taken by the military branches to increase security and has told the services to get back to him by the end of next week with additional force protection measures, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement on Friday.

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http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/07/18/marine-recruiters-told-not--wear-uniforms-offices-closed/30353587/

To be fair, members of the armed forces have been told not to wear their uniforms in public (obvious exceptions to and from place of duty) since at least 9/11.

In the US, or abroad?

And I'm going to guess this did not include recruitment centers, where let's face it if the soldiers selling the program to the interested are too scared to wear the uniform they might as well close up shop.

Both. And the article does not mention not allowing recruiters to not wear them while on duty, which they would be while at the recruitment center or scouring the local mall.

DoD reissues the statement periodically, and almost everytime, people (typically hard right wingers) go nuts and say things like "Obama is disrespecting the military." Here's one such article from last year from a right wing blog.

 

[SHIZNITTTT]

I blame Obama

 

[Sam Quentin]

At least Obama finally lowered the White House flag to half mast. So tone deaf for him to have waited so long to do it.

Agreed

Disgraceful

I'm sure he does some of this stuff to tweak people's sensitivities, but it's really childish and distasteful....

 

[Widbil83]

What was the spin on waiting 5 days?

 

[bagger]

Someone needs to re-title the thread "Contest to See who can be the biggest A hole".

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

At least Obama finally lowered the White House flag to half mast. So tone deaf for him to have waited so long to do it.

Yeah but WTH:

Marine recruiters told not to wear uniforms after attackThe military services have taken swift action to increase security after Thursday's shootings in Tennessee, even closing some facilities and telling Marine recruiters not to wear uniforms in public.

Defense Secretary Ash Cater approved immediate steps taken by the military branches to increase security and has told the services to get back to him by the end of next week with additional force protection measures, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement on Friday.

...

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story/military/2015/07/18/marine-recruiters-told-not--wear-uniforms-offices-closed/30353587/

To be fair, members of the armed forces have been told not to wear their uniforms in public (obvious exceptions to and from place of duty) since at least 9/11.

In the US, or abroad?

And I'm going to guess this did not include recruitment centers, where let's face it if the soldiers selling the program to the interested are too scared to wear the uniform they might as well close up shop.

Both. And the article does not mention not allowing recruiters to not wear them while on duty, which they would be while at the recruitment center or scouring the local mall.

DoD reissues the statement periodically, and almost everytime, people (typically hard right wingers) go nuts and say things like "Obama is disrespecting the military." Here's one such article from last year from a right wing blog.

That article does not, the Marine's post did mention this, though he may be misinformed. That would be new though if true.

I have to say if the policy on not wearing one's uniform publicly in the US is old or new, I do disagree with it.

In any case, good post, thanks.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Mary Walsh Verified account ‏@CBSWalsh

@SECNAV approves Purple Hearts for KIA @USMC and WIA sailor in #Chattanooga after FBI finding attack was inspired by foreign terrorist group

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

FBI Director: Chattanooga shooting was terror inspiredThe fatal shooting at a Navy reserve facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015 was "inspired by terrorist organization propaganda," FBI Director James Comey told reporters.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

In a change, FBI says July 16 Chattanooga attack 'motivated by' terrorist propaganda Agency previously maintained it didn't want to 'smear people.'

The shooter who attacked two military sites in Chattanooga on July 16 was inspired by a foreign terrorist organization, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today in a press conference in New York City.

"We've investigated Chattanooga from the beginning and we've concluded the Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terrorist organization's propaganda," Director James Comey told reporters in New York.

Comey made the remarks to reporters in New York after the Associated Press and other media outlets pointed out inconsistencies between the FBI's handling of the Chattanooga shooting and other, seemingly similar cases.

On July 16, 24-year-old Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez attacked two military sites in Chattanooga and killed five U.S. service members. The FBI initially hesitated to call the attack "terrorism."

While it took two days for the FBI to announce it was investigating the Dec. 2 San Bernardino attacks as an act of terror, it took five months after the killing of five military personnel in Chattanooga for authorities to use the same wording about the attack by a Kuwaiti-born gunman.

"It's often difficult to untangle which particular source — there is competing foreign terrorist poison out there," Comey said. "To my mind there is no doubt the Chattanooga shooter was inspired and motivated by foreign terrorist organization propaganda. We've investigated it from the beginning as a foreign terrorist case."

Hours after the FBI's announcement, the U.S. Navy said that the five men who died and the Marine who was injured in the will be awarded Purple Hearts.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/dec/16/fbi-says-july-16-shooting-inspired-terrorist-propaganda/340731/