{"id":17922,"date":"2012-05-29T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17922"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:13:17","slug":"marine-crusaders-become-werewolves-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/marine-crusaders-become-werewolves-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Crusaders Become Werewolves, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to MSNBC, the VMFA-122 Crusaders were “ordered to reverse<\/a>” their decision to return to the “Crusaders”<\/a> moniker.<\/p>\n

“The deputy commandant for aviation [Lt. Gen. Terry Robling] directed VMFA 122 to maintain the unit identification as the Werewolves,” said Marines public information officer Lt. Col. Joseph Plenzler. “I called down there to confirm that they have changed the tail markings, squadron patches” and other places the squadron logo appears, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marines gave no reason for the order, giving Michael Weinstein — who had called the Marines a “national security threat”<\/a> for the move — the blood in the water he needed to claim victory and make further demands:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“We still demand that those who made the decision…be fully and aggressively prosecuted so this never happens again,” said Weinstein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former (and apparently failed) military lawyer fails to explain for what crime any person should be “prosecuted,” something even MRFF representative\u00a0Rick Baker called “harsh.” \u00a0Since the Marines seem to have surrendered to his demands, Weinstein takes that as an acknowledgement of wrongdoing.\u00a0 Wrongdoing, in his mind, apparently means someone needs to “get an f[–]ing beating<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Weinstein will likely use this to justify further attacks on Crusader-like symbology in the US military, a burr in his saddle<\/a>\u00a0that revealed his vendetta against only Christian <\/em>symbolism a few years ago<\/a>.\u00a0 A commenter pointed this out quite well [links added]:<\/p>\n

Why stop there? Why not go after the Navy\u2019s VFC- 13 Saints<\/a> (reference to the Catholic sainthood tradition), VFC-12 Fighting Omars<\/a> (Omar? My God! It\u2019s a surefire Jihad in the making), VR-57 Conquistadors<\/a> (again Catholic church inspired invaders and murders), VFC-111 Sundowners<\/a> (those Japanese were fighting for religious belief in their Emperor), VP-69 Totems<\/a> (everyone knows totems are religious symbols)? And I only know about the Navy\u2026 God knows the entire US military must be steeped in religious references!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to MSNBC, the VMFA-122 Crusaders were “ordered to reverse” their decision to return to the “Crusaders” moniker. “The deputy commandant for aviation [Lt. Gen. Terry Robling] directed VMFA 122 to maintain the unit identification as the Werewolves,” said Marines public information officer Lt. Col. Joseph Plenzler. “I called down there to confirm that they have changed the tail markings, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,134,13,894,1316,175,250,219,295,5285,442,52,888,149,85,2,5218,7,3114,10,171,420,40,3154,3157,3155,123,3163],"class_list":["post-17922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-al-qaeda","tag-beaufort-marine-air-base","tag-chris-rodda","tag-crusader","tag-dadt","tag-f-18","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-homosexual","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-marines","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-rainbow-flag","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-rick-baker","tag-tradition","tag-vmfa-122","tag-wade-wiegel","tag-werewolves","tag-world-war-ii","tag-wzl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}