'Expulsion?' one Twitter user asked.
"We're looking into it," Lieutenant Colonel Chris Ophardt, a spokesperson for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York, told the newspaper."I don't know what their intention is."
Commander Alana Garas, a spokesperson for the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland made a similar statement."We are aware and will be looking into it," she toldvia email that"U.S. Naval Academy officials have appointed a preliminary inquiry officer to conduct an internal investigation into the hand gestures" made during the broadcast."Based on findings of the investigation, those involved will be held appropriately accountable," she said.
The leaders of the U.S. Coast Guard reprimanded an officer last year for using a similar hand symbol,that three active-duty military soldiers had made racist posts on an online neo-Nazi message board.the identity of one of those posters as U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Liam J. Collins. The Marine Corps said at the time that it intended to"fully investigate this allegation. If substantiated, the subject Marine will be held fully accountable.
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