Reporters Jeremy Herb and Daniel Strauss, last evening, reported in The Hill on a change in the motto of the RCO, which was picked up by Drudge.
A group of Republican lawmakers is protesting the removal a reference to God in the patch logo for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO).The motto used to read:
Doing God’s Work with Other People’s MoneyThose with little time in one of the Armed Services will fail to appreciate the cynicism of the motto. Those without experience in the Acquisition field will not automatically add, as they read the motto, "Through Godless Contractors".
Well, someone lacking a gene critical for a sense of humor jumped on this and thus the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers asked for a motto change, thus giving additional employment to the folks at the Army Institute of Heraldry. The motto was changed to:
Doing Miracles with Other People’s MoneyHonest. In Latin.
But, it is still work being done through Godless contractors.
The nice thing about this is that it gave a group of Republicans in Our House of Representatives an excuse to send a letter. Quoting the article:
The 35 lawmakers, led by Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), wrote a letter to Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz urging them to restore the logo with a reference to God.Honest.
And all of this "with other people's money". Our money.
Regards — Cliff
1 comment:
When used in the context of some published article, or in the first person as a protester of something, bodies such as "Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers" sounds ominously large. One can easily imagine an organization on the order of say, NAACP, CAIR, or even ACLU. Some body of folks with huge coffers and lots of K Street clout.
And yet, as one with much military experience, I have to question just WHO are these folks and how many of them are there......REALLY? My bet is that they are a quite small splinter group of rugged radicals who are intent on having THEIR view of the world become the gold standard. They have big mouths and small budgets...which only goes to validate the axiom that "talk is cheap." Thus, they obstruct and obfuscate and generally become a chronic thorn in the mainstream's side.....believing all along in the Burger King philosophy that "you can have it YOUR way"...which.....sadly..even at Burger King is not ground truth.
But we pay grandly for their 15 seconds of fame...
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