Pentagon drafting ban on displaying Confederate flag at bases

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Pentagon drafting ban on displaying Confederate flag at bases

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent
Updated 2120 GMT (0520 HKT) July 6, 2020

Washington (CNN) — In a move that could pit the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military leaders against President Donald Trump, a draft Pentagon policy document to ban the Confederate flag from being displayed at military bases has been circulating for the last week at the highest levels of the military, a defense official directly familiar with the document told CNN.

It has yet to be formally approved while military legal personnel review how to ensure a ban can properly be carried out, the official said.

A decision to move ahead with a department-wide ban could now come soon, the official said. It is not known if Defense Secretary Mark Esper will seek Trump's approval to proceed with the ban.

Word of the potential military ban came the same day the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany avoided specifically answering multiple questions from reporters about the President's apparent support for flying the flag at NASCAR events.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/06/politics/pentagon-confederate-flag-ban/index.html

[TreasonousBastard]

1. "how to ensure a ban can properly be carried out"...

Come on-- these are military bases where they regulate the color of your socks and where the stapler goes on your desk.

Banning the stars and bars should not be a big deal.

[mazzarro]

2. How did the confederate flag get approval to fly on US military bases? - n/t

[gladium et scutum]

3. Probably never had "permission"

some troops had bumper stickers with that flag, some guys would hang one on their barracks walls, the PX would sell small items with that flag on it. Doubt it was ever flown from a flag pole or anything like that. These were all individual acts which up until recently, no one in command gave much thought to.