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16. I've seen people in the army with SS and other nazi and white power tattoos
Fri Aug 17, 2012, 10:20 PM
Aug 2012

and the army does conduct yearly sensitivity training to alert people to what those symbols are so they can recognize them. They also encourage people who have been harassed because of their race or religion to file EO complaints.

I could have gotten half the people I served with in Afghanistan hit with EO complaints if I chose to. I was (still am) the only jewish soldier in my company and I got subjected to taunts and statements like "your people killed Christ" and "dirty jew" and so on and so forth.

But I was a new cherry private and figured it was part of what being in the army (and the infantry especially) was all about. The only time it became an issue was when people in my platoon started telling the Afghan army soldiers that I was jewish. For obvious reasons that concerned me. After my PL found out about it he told the CO (who was married to a jewish woman) and order came down not to mention my religion in front of the ANA.

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