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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

White supremacists in the Navy and Marine Corps

Will Carless has written this USA Today account of how the Navy and Marine Corps have dealt with white supremacists in their ranks. He begins:

For decades, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have quietly kicked out some of the worst white supremacists in their ranks, offering them administrative discharges that leave no public record of their hateful activity, a USA TODAY review of Navy documents found.

The documents, obtained via a public-records request by the open-government advocacy group American Oversight, detail 13 major investigations into white supremacist activity in the Navy and Marine Corps over more than 20 years. They show a pattern in which military leaders chose to deal with personnel involved in extremism by dismissing them in ways that would not attract public attention.

The article includes a link to the hundreds of pages of investigative records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. 

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