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The two enlisted Team 4 members are being punished for developing racist memes targeting a Black sailor in their platoon and circulating them in a group chat with other team members, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of an ongoing investigation. The memes depicted the sailor as a slave, according to visuals viewed by The Associated Press.

According to the official, the sailor who was targeted reported the incidents this year, but they took place beginning in 2022 and the memes circulated for years. The sailor had been in one of the SEAL Team 4 platoons but had his qualifications and SEAL trident revoked last year. He alleged that his failure to remain a SEAL was due to the racist treatment.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Will it come to nothing or will they be court martialed then reinstated by President Pigshit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Disciplinary actions = promotions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

New EEOC administrators once they leave the SEALs.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Disciplinary actions for the sailor who reported them, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

It says they already stripped him of the SEAL qualifications bc he didn't put up with the racism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago

And the offenders will likely get some form of promotion out of it as well

[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The investigation has completed and has found that the racist memes fully comply with the Trump regimes rules of conduct. The SEALS in question have been promoted to Grand Wizard SEALS a new class made for the newly assigned Kick-ass Killing Kings team.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

They even received a blessing from the incompetent fucknut with the Jerusalem Cross tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Interesting to see that nothing has changed in the last twenty years.

The military is a cesspool of bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You can’t tell someone to point a gun at someone they’ve never met and blow their head off without first training them to be a violent bigot. The bigotry is the core business.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

To be fair, they are people who go out to kill on orders. To expect them to be emotionally sensitive to our lives might be expecting too much. They’re kinda like smarter pitbulls you set loose on your enemy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's just a cross-section of society at large.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

I found the army to be less racist than society at large. It's much harder to hate someone when your life literally depends on them and you spend all the time with them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

and with this regime, those disciplinary actions will be promotions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Promoted to Grand Wizards of the Kla- I mean Military,.1st Class.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

For real. Get these guys into leadership roles pronto! /s

The only thing this braindead administration wants is hatred, bigotry, and racism to spread.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

MAGA: See - this is why we shouldn't have minorities in the military!