US Navy to Alter "Swastika" Building?

Question

Going to cost the U.S. tax payer $ 600,000 to fix this problem. Don't you think some engineer while planning would have seen this? Unbeleivable!

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/46586

Answer 1

Who cares. How many people will be looking at it from the sky? How many people would even know it looks that way until the media blew it up into a big story.
It's a waste of tax payers money to change it. Taxes get higher every year and to know that it goes to things like this is ridiculous.

Answer 2

They did, but too late to stop the construction. Also, as the article pointed out, it didn't matter until recently when people started seeing it on Google Earth, etc...

$600,000 is really not that much in the Military budget. I'm sure it'll come out of the overall maintenance budget for Coronado Bay Naval Station.

I personally think it's silly for people to get upset by it, the Swastika form is extremely old and has always been considered a Good Luck symbol, or a symbol of divinity. It's because of Hitler and the Nazis that it has a bad connotation now. It as if the christian cross were treated as a symbol of hate because of the crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.

Answer 3

Yeah I saw this. The building was built in the 1960s and they're just getting complaints about it. Apparently no one considered that the average American would be looking at it from the air. Hindsight is 20/20. $600,000 is cheap compared to the bad press. Are you aware of how much one Super Hornet costs? $58 million.

Answer 4

The person that drew up the plans saw it. You know somebody was working off of written plans and those people saw it. Remember it was in the late 60s when they were built, and they were probably built by some hippies. From my understanding is that $600,000 is a lot for camoflague which is basically what they plan to do.