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Navy to Alter Swastika-Shaped Barracks
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; 2:20 PM
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.
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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."
The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; 2:20 PM
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.
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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."
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Support our troops 
Thats bullshit acting like they didnt know.
$600k tax dollars.
Thats bullshit acting like they didnt know.
$600k tax dollars.
Some of these fucks in high political positions have Nazi ties so doesn't really surprise me. I saw this awhile ago.
Support our troops
Thats bullshit acting like they didnt know.
$600k tax dollars.
THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THEY KNEW, THEY JUST DIDNT EXPECT GOOGLE EARTH. CONSIDER THE MONEY TO CHANGE PLANS+ THE THOUGHT THAT THE US WILL ALWAYS CONTROL THE SATs=FUCK IT, LET IT RIDE.
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or airplanes
Exactly....They act like Google earth just revealed this shit...Somebody knew what was going on.
Walking around that anyone with half a brain could have figured that shape out.
Built in the 60's, yeah right they knew what they were doing...Blueprints have an overhead view of what's being built......sorry ass mothafukkas!!!
I say leave it as it is and put the rest of the money in a relief fund, which would be sorta like the Army relief fund that helps soldiers who are going through a crisis. Instead of making them pay the shit back, let em slide. Or help out families at Walter reed.
they don't care about the soldiers
They only care about their agendas being met in a timely fashion
Dammit...I completely forgot about that. It seemed like a good idea while I was thinking of a more practical use for the money long term.
doing something that could actually benefit people as a whole hasn't been done much since Kennedy was in office.
They frontin like "Oh, we didn't know"
You are not lying my nigga.
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