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Legal Research
Ft.
Bragg's Policy on the Display
of Confederate Battle Flags
AFVC-EO
21 June 2000
INFORMATION PAPER
SUBJECT: Display of Confederate battle flags
1. Purpose. To provide information on the
Army policy and commander's options in regard to display of Confederate
battle flags.
2. Facts.
a. Army Regulation 600-20, para 4-12.c. gives
commanders the authority to prohibit soldiers from participating in
activities that the commander determines will adversely affect good
order and discipline or morale within the command. This includes, but
is not limited to, the authority to order the removal of symbols,
flags, posters or other displays from barracks. This provision of the
regulation in interpreted to also include all areas under the
commander's control, such as the unit common areas or unit parking
lots.
b. Commanders may restrict the display of
Confederate battle flags, in whatever form, if they believe that the
display of Confederate battle flags adversely affects or disrupts good
order and discipline in their unit.
c. Confederate battle flags that are integrated,
by law, into a state license plate, such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate issued by the state of
North Carolina, cannot be restricted.
d. Commanders who are unclear about the limits
of their authority in a particular situation in ordering the removal
of a flag, license plate, bumper sticker, item of clothing or other
display should consult their Brigade Trail Counsel, or the Chief of
Administrative Law at 2-0178.
LTC Bradford/2-0663
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