In 2007 two incidents involving within the drew national attention. That summer, a cadet at the service’s officer training academy found a noose in his sea bag while aboard a vessel. The next month an instructor discussing relations in response to the first incident reported a was left in her office.

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reverses course on policy to call & 'potentially divisive'

The late-night change came the same day media outlets, led by WaPo, discovered that the had written a policy…that called those same symbols “potentially divisive.” The term was a shift from a years-long policy…that said symbols like swastikas & nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” & called their display “a potential incident.”

apnews.com/article/coast-guard

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