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Friday, June 05, 2026

The DOD has dropped 180 religions from official recognition, now excluding Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists, and various Wiccans. Moreover, a panel from the House Armed Services Committee approved the expensive, wasteful, and abhorrent scheme to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

How would a Bronze Star hero like atheist Colonel Richard P. Mason be treated by the diabolical Trumpf junta today?

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 11:07 AM | Reply

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 11:09 AM | Reply

Possibly a greater impact would be on the VA and what they drop from gravestones.
Different leadership, not sure if more rational.
www.cem.va.gov

#3 | Posted by mattm at 2026-06-05 11:18 AM | Reply

Thanks for that info, Matt.

I am no longer recognized yet I am entitled to a military burial.

I'm gonna look for my old dog tags with its P38 can opener still on them.

The nefarious Trumpf junta creates all of these messes that are both costly and harmful.

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 11:24 AM | Reply

How do you identify that isn't included? Ignore if intrusive. There may be a way for a custom medallion to be added to a VA provided headstone. I've seen a few in civilian but not VA cemeteries.

#5 | Posted by mattm at 2026-06-05 11:32 AM | Reply

Ignore if intrusive. Let me revise, it is intrusive, but I'm interested.

#6 | Posted by mattm at 2026-06-05 11:33 AM | Reply

Not intrusive to a fellow Soldier, Matt.

My symbol is the atom.

I'll most likely choose an Irish wake with lots of booze and laughs and then be cremated.

I hope I have some fun at the wake, though.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 11:42 AM | Reply

"The DOD has dropped 180 religions from official recognition, now excluding Atheists.."

Hey DOD dumbasses.. atheism is not a religion.

And they prefer you not recognize them as such.

So. Thank you?

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-05 11:46 AM | Reply

Hi Marine

SNAFU at the Pentagon. "Situation Normal, All F***ed Up"

BTW: USMC aviation got it's start on little Puerto Rico before WW1.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 11:49 AM | Reply

Will Trump personally desecrate the graves with the disfavored religions on them, at Arlington National Cemetery?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-05 11:55 AM | Reply

Re 10

Not likely. Way too hard. He would just order the national park service to do it. And fire them if they don't.

But I bet there are a lot of folks eager and just waiting to personally desecrate Trumpy's grave.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-05 12:28 PM | Reply

But not Satanists.

Satanists have a long history with the Pentagon, though.

#12 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-06-05 12:34 PM | Reply

- Unitarian Universalists

Really? I can see where they might be a danger to drunken wife-beating Secs of War.

Watch out, Rogers!

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-05 02:46 PM | Reply

"No Rel Pref" is how the US Amy issued my dog tags last century.

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 03:30 PM | Reply

TYPO fixed: "No Rel Pref" is how the US Army issued my dog tags last century.

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-05 03:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

An even less useful tidbit on the dog tag is your blood type. Over the years I have asked lab heads/techs, trauma surgeons if they would under any circumstances use that information for a clinical decision. Greeted with a universal snort.

#16 | Posted by mattm at 2026-06-05 03:45 PM | Reply

During mass casualty exercises I would be assigned to the dirty side of Triage to assist with decon and assigning of priority. Sometimes I would get the 'expected' tent. Kind of like acute hospice. Make the psychiatrist useful, but out of the way.

#17 | Posted by mattm at 2026-06-05 03:49 PM | Reply

All lead by one of the most transparently fake Chreestians to hold government office.

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-05 05:20 PM | Reply

Mormonism should be banned since it was invented by a pedophile. Islam as well for the same reason.

#19 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-05 06:04 PM | Reply

#19 | Posted by rf4b

No society is better than any other. They told me that on the first day of Anthropology, and nobody questioned it.

#20 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-06-05 06:23 PM | Reply

Okay, this link is communist disinformation.

The link leads to www.bing.com

It's a list of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's greatest hits. Thanks, comrade.

#21 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-06-05 06:32 PM | Reply

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