{"id":55222,"date":"2020-04-21T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/04\/21\/navy-puts-surgical-mask-on-its-logo-responses-go-about-as-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:26:29","slug":"navy-puts-surgical-mask-on-its-logo-responses-go-about-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2020\/04\/21\/navy-puts-surgical-mask-on-its-logo-responses-go-about-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy puts surgical mask on its logo & social media responses go about as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Navy\u2019s official Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> accounts posted updated profiles pictures Monday featuring a surgical mask covering the face of the service\u2019s eagle logo, an obvious nod to the era of social distancing and germ prevention in which society is currently mired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it\u2019s not the official uniformed logo of the sea service \u2014 that designation would be reserved for the Anchor, USS Constitution, and Eagle (ACE)<\/a> emblem \u2014 social media-dispatched judgement was nevertheless swift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why wouldn\u2019t it be? After all, a Facebook comment thread is seldom a destination where one comes for existential reassurance, venerable commentary, rational discourse, or intellectual stimulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inevitably, there were a number of \u201cBack in my day\u201d and \u201cThis is not a way to represent the Navy\u201d responses from the saltiest of seafarers, who somehow managed to break just long enough from incessant scrimshaw carving and white whale hunting to impart a few wise words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there were entertaining variations as well. Because if quarantine has cemented anything, it\u2019s that the comedic creativity of a species with too much time on its hands knows no bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI ate midrats and drank bug juice regularly so that makes me immune,\u201d one Facebook user joked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional comments reflected what some sailors suggest is a deficiency of personal protective equipment, or PPE, throughout the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs if the navy is actually going to adequately supply their force with PPE,\u201d one user commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh cool, a bird has a better mask than most of the Sailors actually do since theirs are made out of their T-shirts,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFixed it for you, since real masks are nowhere to be found,\u201d one user joked, attaching the image seen below to mimic the T-shirt mask donned by numerous sailors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Others, meanwhile, tied the image to the recent public relations debacle surrounding the firing of Capt. Brett Crozier, the former commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeems appropriate that it looks like a muzzle after what was done to Captain Crozier when he spoke out to protect his crew,\u201d one user commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever you fall on the subject of Crozier, PPE, or logo alterations, at least it was better received than the Thanksgiving version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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