IN THE MILITARY
Navy denies flag allegations
Says Clinton won't change regulations to placate communists
By Geoff Metcalf � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
A spokesman for the U.S. Navy has officially denied allegations,
raised in a WorldNetDaily report, that President Clinton will
alter long-standing Navy regulations to allow the U.S. flag to
be flown in a subordinate position to that of communist Vietnam.
WorldNetDaily reported Wednesday that, according to highly placed
and credible Navy sources, President Clinton plans to visit the
People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of Vietnam
on a U.S. Navy destroyer before the end of his term. The Naval
officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the president
also plans to alter long-standing naval regulations and tradition
in order to allow the American flag to be flown below that of
Vietnam when the vessel sails into the communist nation's
territorial waters.
Although U.S. Navy regulations and traditions dating back to
before the Revolutionary War prescribe that no country's flag be
displayed in a position superior to that of the U.S. flag,
Vietnam reportedly has a rule demanding that the Vietnamese flag
shall always fly in a superior position to any other country's
flag. Thus the alleged planned pandering on the part of the
president not to offend the sensibilities of Vietnam's
totalitarien government.
WND contacted several government agencies in an effort to get
official response to two basic questions:
Does President Clinton intend to visit China and Vietnam before
leaving office?
Has the secretary of the Navy been instructed to amend Navy
regulations in order to permit the flag of Vietnam to fly in a
superior position to the U.S. flag?
In response, Alan P. Goldstein, assistant chief of information
for technology integration in the Navy's Office of Information in
the Pentagon answered WND's questions in writing:
"The Navy is not aware of any planned trips by the President to
China or Vietnam aboard a Navy ship. I have also read the
article in the Internet publication and can assure you that there
are no plans to change the regulations governing the flying of
the U.S. flag on U.S. Navy warships. Federal statutes determine
Navy Regulations on the flying of the national ensign on Navy
vessels, and are not subject to alteration by the Department of
the Navy."
Highly placed Navy sources believe this action on the president's
part would further devastate already tenuous Navy morale. The
results of a record-breaking WorldNetDaily reader poll (over 99
percent of 15,000+ respondents said they would be either
"outraged" or "ashamed" if "the U.S. Navy dips the American flag
to the flags of Vietnam and China") indicate those expressed
concerns may be an understatement.
Goldstein included excerpts from Navy regulations that apply:
Navy Regulations, 1990, Chapter 12
Section 1277, Paragraph 1: "When the national ensigns of two or
more nations are required to be displayed from the same masthead,
the United States national ensign, if required, shall be
displayed to starboard of all others. The national ensigns of
other nations shall be displayed, starboard to port, in
alphabetical order of the names of the nations in the English
language; except that the ensign of a foreign nation within whose
waters the ship is located, if displayed, shall be to starboard
of other foreign ensigns.
Paragraph 3: "In rendering honors, the national ensign of one
nation shall not be displayed above that of another nation at the
same masthead."
Section 1279, Paragraph 3: "When dressing or full-dressing ship
in honor of a foreign nation, the national ensign of that nation
shall replace the United States national ensign at the main, or
at the masthead in the case of a single-masted ship; provided
that when a ship is full-dressed or dressed in honor of more than
one nation, the ensign of each nation shall be displayed at the
main, or at the masthead in a single-masted ship."
Paragraph 6: "Ships not under way shall be dressed or
full-dressed from 0800 until sunset. Ships under way shall not
be dressed or full-dressed."
[Sources have emphasized that the alleged plans were reported in
high-level briefings, and that although concerns for career
advancement and military politics have intimidated them, they
were anxious that the story be reported in the hope "disinfectant
sunshine" would kill the plans.]
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