Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has issued a memo ordering the immediate removal of any and all confederate paraphernalia from bases worldwide.
"Last week, the Commandant of the Marine Corps directed specific tasks be reviewed or addressed by Headquarters Marine Corps staff," a statement provided to Connecting Vets by the Marines reads. "Many of the tasks were published on Twitter Friday. Other tasks not published previously are mostly administrative matters. Any official policy decisions, changes or implementation plans will be published via appropriate orders and messages."
The Commandant's memo would apply to the removal of any Confederate flags or memorabilia inside buildings owned by the Marines.
The Army has a number of bases named after confederate generals, however, the Marines and Navy do not.
In recent years, controversy has swirled about the military's relationship to its Civil War past and the appropriateness of modern-day Confederate iconography in the ranks.
In years past, the Marines have also found themselves in trouble for displaying the Waffen SS twin lighting bolts flag, some say as an ironic gesture but none the less one that represents the very worst human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by the criminal Nazi regime.
Debates surrounding the Confederate flag have increased in the past several years, with Congress recently asking the military to better track white supremacists in their ranks.