40 year old us navy building in the shape of a swastika

[coronadozx]

check the attached photo.

in the news article it says navy officials knew it was shaped like a swastika since '67 but decided to leave it shaped like that b/c the shape wasn't obvious from the ground.

FOXNews.com - Navy to Modify Barracks Complex That Resembles a Swastika From Air - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

Navy to Modify Barracks Complex That Resembles a Swastika From Air

CORONADO, Calif. — The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air, a gaffe that went largely unnoticed before satellite images became easily accessible on the Internet.

The Navy said officials noted the buildings' shape after the groundbreaking in 1967 but decided against changing it at the time because it wasn't obvious from the ground. Aerial photos made available on Google Earth in recent years have since revealed the buildings' shape to a wide audience.

The Navy approved the money to change the walkways, landscaping and rooftop solar panels of the four L-shaped barracks, used by members of the Naval Construction Force at the Navy's amphibious base at Coronado, near San Diego.

"We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," Scott Sutherland, deputy public affairs officer for Navy Region Southwest, told the Los Angeles Times.

Online commentators remarked widely about the buildings' resemblance to the Nazi symbol.

Dave vonKleist, host of "The Power Hour," a Missouri-based radio-talk show, said he wrote to military officials calling for action.

"I'm concerned about symbolism," he said. "This is not the type of message America needs to be sending to the world."

The Navy decided to alter the buildings' shape following requests this year by Anti-Defamation League regional director Morris Casuto and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.

"I don't ascribe any intentionally evil motives to this," Casuto said of the design. "It just happened. The Navy has been very good about recognizing the problem. The issue is over."

[Bredebee]

well that's kinda creepy

[kevinwilly]

Goddammit....

the swastika is a shape that has been around for a least a thousand years. Just because the nazi's used it, i guess that's it. The symbol will never be used for anything ever again.

[coronadozx]

^pretty much.

thanks adolf.


zig heil!

[Rascus]

I can't believe they are renovating this to fix it. That buildings been there like you said, 40yrs and as soon as an overhead shot is taken, then it's an issue.

[coronadozx]

you know how the navy is man, it's all PR.

[Bredebee]

Nice Avatar pickles lololol

[coronadozx]

thanks.

that dude (or whatever the hell it is) is so scary looking he's/it's funny

[Bredebee]

he actually looks like he enjoys the glittery make up ........frightening

[PacoPepe]

Give me a break....what a waste of taxpayer money. Next they'll be saying we need to tear down and rebuild the pentagon b/c it resembles a pentagram, commonly associated with witchcraft and satanism.

600K would go to better use toward a couple of bombs to take care of the non-existent (per the media and the I-hate-america crowd) Iranian nuclear threat.

[360]

it's also known as the broken cross. I dont think alot of people know about the history of the broken cross before German Nazi's used it.

[Nimitz87]

hahaha I stayed in that run down piece of shit last year. how come they couldn't have redone it before I was there? I stayed in the one in the top left hand corner...across the street is the chow hall

good times...stupid politically correct crap however.

Chad

[PacoPepe]

Originally Posted by 360

it's also known as the broken cross. I dont think alot of people know about the history of the broken cross before German Nazi's used it.

indeed....paganism out-dates the nazis by a few thousand years. However we tend to associate such symbols with their most recent use. In this case, the Holocaust is so close historically that it will not soon fade into the history books.

[robert_s_hunter]

Clearly, some people have way too much time on their hands. What a load of crap!!! $600K so some dim-wit doesn't get offended by an aerial photo? I swear the population of human-beings who exist simply to "breathe other peoples air" is growing exponentially....

[down_on_monday]

The Army use to have a unit patch with that symbol of that until the very early 1900's. I remember seeing it in one of the buildings on Fort Carson. I was learning to be a CLS and saw the pictures and story on the wall.