{"id":162771,"date":"2024-11-04T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=162771"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:59:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:59:46","slug":"morale-suppression-team-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162771","title":{"rendered":"Morale Suppression Team, Away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162773 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Whut?<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Navy pilot spotted with patch depicting Houthis as \u2018Star Wars\u2019 sand people<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>The since-pulled photo signifies Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 74\u2019s time in the Red Sea with \u201cHouthi Hunting Club Red Sea 2023-2024.\u201d<br \/>\nNicholas Slayton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent publicly released Navy photo showed a member of a helicopter squadron sporting a patch that says \u201cHouthi Hunting Club Red Sea 2023-2024,\u201d with an image of the Tusken Raiders from \u201cStar Wars.\u201d The image has since been removed from the military\u2019s imagery and video database where it was first published. Tusken Raiders are better known \u2014 in and out of universe \u2014 as \u201csand people.\u201d The patch shows two Tusken Raiders, one wielding a \u201cgaffi stick,\u201d inside a crosshair.<\/p>\n<p>The photo of the patch was included in a Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, or DVIDS, news release about members of Helicopter Maritime Squadron (HSM)-74 visiting Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida on Monday, Oct. 28. The images were posted online that day. As of Friday, Nov. 1 that post has been taken down by DVIDS. The service has not publicly stated why the images were posted only to be deleted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/news\/navy-patch-houthi-sand-people-star-wars\/\">Task and Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t impinge on the tender sensibilities of Iran-backed terrorists who currently are making a mockery of our vaunted &#8220;Freedom of Navigation&#8221; in the Red Sea and shooting at our warships. Israel takes out their refineries, we take patches off of Aircrew flightsuits.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162772 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/stupid-300x218-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whut? Navy pilot spotted with patch depicting Houthis as \u2018Star Wars\u2019 sand people The since-pulled photo &hellip; <a title=\"Morale Suppression Team, Away!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162771\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morale Suppression Team, Away!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":162773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-navy","category-the-stupid-is-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}