Posted on Nov 29, 2016
Army reviews the use of 'Golden Knights' name by Vegas hockey team
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This is interesting and weird news that the US Army is concerned their would be confusion between the very famous Gold Knights Army parachute team and a hockey team with the same name in Las Vegas.
"Bill Foley, owner of the Vegas Golden Knights and a 1967 West Point grad, told Army Times he was partial to using the Black Knights, the name given to the United States Military Academy’s sports teams. However, Foley said he received push back from the Academy.
“The goal was to have ‘knights’ in the name,” he said."
There has been pushback to using any name which might insult black American's, Indian Americans and Spanish Americans. I hope there is no limitation of medieval combat names :-)
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"Bill Foley, owner of the Vegas Golden Knights and a 1967 West Point grad, told Army Times he was partial to using the Black Knights, the name given to the United States Military Academy’s sports teams. However, Foley said he received push back from the Academy.
“The goal was to have ‘knights’ in the name,” he said."
There has been pushback to using any name which might insult black American's, Indian Americans and Spanish Americans. I hope there is no limitation of medieval combat names :-)
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SFC William Farrell SSgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Tom Brown SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"SSgt Robert Marx TSgt Joe C. SGT Robert George PO2 Ed C.
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