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Hey Roman Mars and 99P. I have a burning question for you. Why do U.S. flags on military

vehicles and uniforms always appear backwards? That's from Michael Macaulpin.

Well, first of all, they're only backwards part of the time. Military regulations state that when a flag is displayed, it must give the effect of that flag flying in the breeze as if the person wearing it is moving forward. So if the patch is on the left arm, the flag is displayed as you

normally think of it with that blue star field in the upper left-hand corner. But if the flag

patch is on the right arm, it's the reverse side flag that's displayed with the blue star

field in the upper right-hand corner. The same goes for vehicles. The blue star

field always points towards the front of the vehicle as if it's flying and we're charging forward to

victory so if you're looking at the right side of a tank or an aircraft you'll see

the reverse flag. This is part two of the mini stories episode where I interview the staff about

their favorite little design stories that don't quite fill out an

entire episode for whatever reason but they are cool 99 p. I

stories nonetheless. Plus in between the staff stories I'll be telling a few many

stories suggested by you beautiful nerds who enjoy having me paraphrase Google search results and read them out loud.

All right. Up first, the senior editor, Katie Mingle.

My name is Katie Mingle and I am the senior editor.

What does that mean?

I do the same stuff that we all do in some ways which is like find stories and report on them and make them but I also

edit a lot so I look at other people's stories on paper before they go to like a larger group at it and I cut like five

pages out of every story. No, I probably cut like four minutes and sometimes do some restructuring and just kind of try to get it

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