US Senator celebrates Army birthday with photo of Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima

Thank you my friend, brother-in-arms and brother-Christ LTC Tom Jones for sharing the perspective from taskandpurpose.com [that I also receive via email] that Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) sent an email celebrating the Army's 247th birthday which originally included the iconic and oft used picture of Marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima along with photos of Army soldiers in action.
To be honest I expect a well-meaning staffer may have been the one to select the images for the email.


Background from {[taskandpurpose.com/culture/senator-marine-photo-army-birthday/]}
"Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) got in on the well-wishing action this morning with a birthday message that included a photo of one of the branch’s most iconic moments — raising the flag at Iwo Jima. Err. Wait a minute…
Here’s the catch, though. Those were Marines in that photo. There’s even a statue of that very same moment at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. (Not to mention that it is one of the most iconic Marine Corps photos in history.)
The image was quickly replaced with one that managed to include only Army soldiers in it, but the original was captured for posterity before being taken down.
This kind of stuff tends to happen quite often when it comes to social media and birthday wishes for military branches — presumably aided by a hasty Google search with the keywords “Happy” “birthday” “soldiers” “America.”
In October 2021, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service tweeted out a birthday wish to the U.S. Navy, but did so using a picture of a Russian warship. They weren’t even the only ones to make the mistake that year, as Idaho Sen. Jim Risch sent out a birthday message to the Navy using a picture of a Royal Thai Navy vessel. Then there are the repeated times people have tweeted out a photo of a soldier carrying a wounded comrade to safety as part of a ‘support the troops’ message, only to later realize it’s actually a photo of two action figures.;
FYI MCPO Hilary Kunz CPL Douglas ChryslerCWO3 Dave Alcantara Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. SFC William Farrell GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D SSG Donald H "Don" Bates SPC Michael Terrell SPC Woody Bullard CPL Ronald Keyes Jr SSG Donald H "Don" Bates CMDCM John F. "Doc" Bradshaw PO3 Edward Riddle SPC Bob Ridley SrA Ronald Moore PO1 Jeff Chandler MSG Roy Cheever
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That U.S. Senator's staff appears to know very little about our nation's military history.