jinxmchue said:
The only "DoD approved stamp" was for Operation Straight Up to interact with the troops. The DoD certainly didn't hand-pick and probably didn't even review what was being planned for the care packages.
But that's a big part of my point - the DoD did green-light this project. Regardless of whether they're card-carrying members of the Stormtroopers For Jesus club or if they did it out of pure ignorance, the inescapable fact is they approved it. How anyone in their right mind could fail to see the incredibly bad optics of such a decision, at a bare minimum, is beyond me. I'm not talking about you, either, I'm talking about the entire US Department of Defense. How is it possible they don't have one single guy working there who saw this and thought, wow, ya know, maybe this isn't such a hot idea?
