"Last year, for the first time, they didn't make their recruiting goals. "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members," said Department of Defense investigator Barfield. Now, with the country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the military under increasingly intense pressure to maintain enlistment numbers, weeding out extremists is less of a priority. One general ordered all 19,000 soldiers at Fort Lewis, Wash., strip-searched for extremist tattoos.But that was peacetime. In 1996, following a decade-long rash of cases where extremists in the military were caught diverting huge arsenals of stolen firearms and explosives to neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations, conducting guerilla training for paramilitary racist militias, and murdering non-white civilians (see timeline), the Pentagon finally launched a massive investigation and crackdown. "We must have people to open doors from the inside when the time comes." They dream of race war and revolution, and their motivations for enlisting are often quite different than serving their country."Join only for the training, and to better defend yourself, our people, and our culture," Fain said. Neo-Nazis represent the opposite of these ideals. American soldiers are supposed to be defenders of democracy. "That's a problem."The armed forces are supposed to be a model of racial equality. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," he added. Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core," Department of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield told the Intelligence Report. Military recruiters and base commanders, under intense pressure from the war in Iraq to fill the ranks, often look the other way. Ten years after Pentagon leaders toughened policies on extremist activities by active duty personnel - a move that came in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing by decorated Gulf War combat veteran Timothy McVeigh and the murder of a black couple by members of a skinhead gang in the elite 82nd Airborne Division - large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists continue to infiltrate the ranks of the world's best-trained, best-equipped fighting force. "Joining the American military was as close as I could get." And before Army engineer Jon Fain joined the invasion of Iraq to fight the War on Terror, the neo-Nazi National Alliance member fantasized about fighting a war on Jews."Ever since my youth - when I watched WWII footage and saw how well-disciplined and sharply dressed the German forces were - I have wanted to be a soldier," Fain said in a Winter 2004 interview with the National Alliance magazine Resistance. military made Matt Buschbacher a Navy SEAL, he made himself a soldier of the Fourth Reich.īefore Forrest Fogarty attended Military Police counter-insurgency training school, he attended Nazi skinhead festivals as lead singer for the hate rock band Attack.
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