The rebel flag found in barracks inspection; what action would you take?

Maj Rob Drury - Simply wrong. As I said, the Confederate VP, Alexander Stephens, in his Cornerstone Speech, stated explicitly that the war started over slavery. The Articles of Secession of several of the southern states state explicitly that their actions are to defend slavery and the notion that the black man is an inferior human being. As for states rights, you have it backwards. The South was AGAINST states rights, complaining (some in their very Articles of Secession) that northern states such as NY were refusing to enforce fugitive slave laws, citing states rights in doing so. You should read a book or two.

SGT Brian Stadler
No that’s exactly what it is/was. It’s the flag of the loser rebellion against our country, they wanted to have and keep slaves, to make any other argument is asinine and moot, you wouldn’t expect to fly a Nazi flag, nor should you. We don’t fly the British flag either, regardless of the fact that we used to be a part of them. You want to own a flag of a failed rebellion, you are free to do so, you are however not entitled to display it on the government walls or fly it on a flagpole. It’s disrespectful to those men who died fighting for OUR country and the people who would have been relegated to slavery if we had lost. All other thoughts, beliefs, notions, ideas, and feelings are forever irrelevant and irrevocable.

If you cleared MEPS with a particular tattoo, and it's in your medical file, then no one can have an argument with it. It was acceptable at the time you joined the military, the person with the problem needs to get over it.

In this case history was not written by the victor, it was written by the vanqushed.
After the Civil War in the US ended, numerous monuments to fallen soldiers and memorials were erected, honouring the “heroes” of the South. “The War of Northern Agression”, as they called it, was not about slavery, but about the right of self-determination (the right to secede, that is). Quite a few stories were written, romanticizing life before 1861: the great balls, Southern gentlemen, Southern ladies, big houses, cotton plantations, etc. Perhaps the biggest example of this is the novel (and the film adaptation) “Gone With The Wind”. Check out the movie "The Birth Of A Nation" which was played in the White House. After the Civil War, from the 1870s through the 1910s, public schooling became more widespread in the South, and Confederate sympathizers wanted to ensure that their children received an “appropriate” education on Southern history and culture. To that end, Southern states developed statewide adoption policies for textbooks. This allowed the state textbook committees to control content by demanding changes or threatening to cancel book contracts unless the publishers acquiesced. Today, most of the states with statewide textbook adoption policies are still in the South.
To keep their business, Northern publishers began adapting history books to appease Southerners, essentially publishing a separate version of Civil War history for those states. These editions reinforced a Lost Cause narrative for Southern audiences. For example, they depicted enslaved people as happy and content. Officials even counted the textbook lines to make sure authors had mentioned Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee as many times as Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant.
What research shows is that as time progressed, increasingly the Southern version of events began infiltrating Northern textbooks as well. As the Southern and Northern narratives merged, Southerners really influenced how and what Americans learned about the Civil War no matter where they lived.
A good read for you: The Secession Acts of the 13 Confederate States. These are documents drawn up by those states. Ths Daughters Of The Confederacy also helped to name the military bases in the South, they also were instramental in getting monuments erected in the South.
Sorry so long, but there is so much misinformation out there.

SFC (Join to see) thank you for sharing.

SFC (Join to see) - "...FLOWN IN PUBLIC..." [Capitals mine.]

SFC (Join to see) - The counterpoint is the phrase "in public". The thread is about a personal room in the barracks, which, by definition, is Not public by which I mean people cannot just walk into it at whim.

SSG Gerhard S. - excellent reply

SP5 Wick Humble - You are probably right, when the illegal immigrants brought their children with them or sent them here alone, we should just have, I don't know, locked up the parents and left the kids out on the street? I am sure there would be a line of people looking to take them home and use them, much like the Cartels do now. And there is always a demand for child sex workers, so you keep on blowing that horn.

Stiv: sarcasm don't solve the problem.

SP5 Wick Humble - It is not sarcasm, it is reality. Joining the military services and taking the oath makes me think you probably have ideals that you are willing to fight and die for. We should all stand in unity for those ideals, like the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The evil happening in the United States, like child sex workers, should be fought just as vigorously as we fought Nazis. People like Epstein are a domestic enemy of our Constitution.

None of those things amounted to the horors of 400 years of chattel slavery. And segregation was a continuation of the disenfranchisement of Africans and their descendants.