# Oops...Navy barracks shaped like swastika

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570 "2007-09-26T17:42:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570/41 "2007-09-27T21:31:44Z")

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I read on another board that this has been generally known in San Diego since the thing was built.

Check out the 2 buildings to the SW. They look a lot like bombers heading for the swastika!

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**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570/42 "2007-09-27T22:21:59Z")

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How much could it cost for a little camouflage netting?

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**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570/43 "2007-09-27T23:00:03Z")

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[QUOTE=thirdwarning]  
How much could it cost for a little camouflage netting?  
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$600K, aren’t you paying attention?

😉

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570/44 "2007-09-28T01:37:42Z")

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[QUOTE=rowrrbazzle]  
I read on another board that this has been generally known in San Diego since the thing was built.

Check out the 2 buildings to the SW. They look a lot like bombers heading for the swastika!  
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I think that’s the secret. Or the joke. Or whatever. We’re all commenting on, and the Navy is about to cover up, a decades-old joke the Navy or one of its contractors perpetrated simply to tweak the Nazis in architecture. The swastika building could be explained away, but the whole tableau with the swastika and the two aircraft coming in? Has to have been intentional.

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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oops-navy-barracks-shaped-like-swastika/420570/45 "2007-09-28T02:12:59Z")

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I agree. Now that I see it, those are bombers coming in to bomb the swastika. They shouldn’t fix this at all. It’s just right.

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