U.S. Military Terrorists Mental Aligned with: Aligned with: US: US: Married Divorced Health Domestic International Birth Naturalized Military 48% 35% 13% 18% 75% 90% 8% Non-Military 11% 18% 3% 9% 81% 63% 32% The years of service ranged from 1942 Military Terrorists – 2017. 20 15 19 45% of the crimes occurred 10 between 0 and 5 years from 5 9 5 3 1 0 # TERRORISTS exiting the service. Army Marines Navy Army Air Force National 88% served as enlisted members. Guard MILITARY BRANCH 30% of these individuals received an honorable discharge at the time MILITARY TERRORISTS USE OF VIOLENCE they left the military, despite a future violent outcome. Yes 75% of these individuals converted 28% to Islam. No 72% Compare Military and Non-Military Terrorist Weapons Use All TERRORISTS USE OF VIOLENCE 48% 45% 25% 26% 18% 21% Yes 3% 3% 3% 0% 29% NONE EXPLOSIVES FIREARMS KNIVES BIOWEAPON No 71% Military Non Military Military Terrorists (N=40) 8% of American Terrorists 2001-2018 © 2019 Terry Oroszi U.S. Military Terrorists Sign on bonus for military-only Why ? jobs, so they are unprepared for civilian life. Non- Military Military Mental Military take care of their people Health 48% 11% with a home, job, food, so they can succeed without money management skills. Married 35% 18% Divorced 13% 3% Transition from military to civilian Jobs that did not life is difficult. The sense of brotherhood, translate to civilian comradery, and community is gone. careers: • combat engineer War experience can leave them with PTSD • infantry or other mental illnesses. They may be • patriot missile checked more frequently than civilians. • rifleman • signalman Marriage Incentives. Extra pay means • supply specialist they may marry with less commitment. • tank crew member Our Study American citizens with military FBI Report experience charged and/or convicted of Active shooters with military service acts related to terrorism. n=40 n=13 Affiliation (%) Army Affiliation (%) Marines 3% Navy 8% 18% 8% Air Force 15% 46% 54% 25% Coast Guard 23% © 2019 Terry Oroszi The Profile of an American Violent Extremist Female: 7% 1 Male: 93% Ages: 15-24 35% Avg. Ages Ages: 25-34 34% M F 2 Ages: 35-44 15% 15 43 17 46 Ages: > 45 16% 80% 80% Not 61% College 64% STEM 3 STEM Science Technology Engineering Math 4 78% 18% 4% 0.2% SINGLE Married Divorced Widowed Working Middle Upper 5 Class 38% Class 18% Class 5% No Student Unemployed active 6 19% 19% father 6 Isolated, 7 8 Angry or Victimized Live in non-birth location. Terry Oroszi, “The American Terrorist: Everything You Need to Know to be a Subject Matter Expert” © 2019 Terry Oroszi Countering American Violent Extremists Encourage them to join productive groups. Help them improve their resume to find gainful employment. Be a friend and mentor. Change their narrative to something positive. Be that father (or big brother/sister) figure. Do not be afraid to call out/address bad behavior. Talk to them about their country, social norms, and tell them about yours. If you SEE something, SAY something. © 2019 Terry Oroszi © 2019 Terry Oroszi Numeric Hate Symbology 1-11 Aryan Nations (AK) 23/16 White Power (WP) 100% 100% White 23 White “Number of countries Jews have been Blood & Honor (LH) 109/110 expelled from” US #110 28 Aryan Brotherhood Ku Klux Klan 3 for # of 12 311 K’s, and K = 11th letter Aryan Circle (AC) Combat 18 and 13 318 Adolf Hitler th 13/52 Af. Am. Population 13%, but 33/6 KKK = #3 K’s and 6 era of commit 52% of all murders the Klan African American Population = 13% but 38 38 stands for CH or "Crossed 13/90 commit 90% of all crimes Hammers” Hammerskin logo Shorthand for 14 Words Supreme White Alliance (SWA) = 14 43 19+3+1 Said to police "I have 14/23 "23 Precepts," Southern 5 Words Brotherhood nothing to say" 14/88 Heil Hitler (HH – 88) 511 European Kindred (EK) "We must secure the existence of our Public Enemy Number 1/ Pen 14 Words people and a future for white children" 737 Death Squad, 737 - letters P, D, and S on a telephone keypad "Heil Christ" or 18 Adolf Hitler (AH) 83 "Hail Christ” (HC) 21-2-12 Unity, Brotherhood, Loyalty (UBL) 8-8/88 88 = HH = Heil Hitler Brotherhood of Aryan Alliance 211 Crew 9% % of world population that is (BAA) white © 2019 Terry Oroszi Acronym Hate Symbology One Front, One ACAB All Cops Are Bastards OFOF Family Our Race Is Our AKAI A Klansman I am ORION Nation AYAK Are You A Klansman RAHOWA Racial Holy War FGRN For God, Race, and Nation ROA Race Over All Gas the Kikes; GTKRWN SS Schutzstaffel, Nazi-era Race War Now Symbol Hammerskins Forever, HFFH SWP Supreme White Power Forever Hammerskins United Society of Aryan HSN Hammerskin Nation USAS Skinheads ITSUB In The Sacred Unfailing WAR White Aryan Resistance Being KABARK Konstantly Applied By All WP White Power Regular Klansmen KIGY Klansman, I Greet You WPWW White Pride Worldwide Klannish Loyalty, A Sacred KLASP YWNRU You Will Not Replace Principle Us LOTIE Lady of The Invisible Empire ZOG Zionist Occupied (female Klan member) Government © 2019 Terry Oroszi Hate Symbology: Hand Signs Solid Wood 23 Hammerskin Soldiers Hand sign Hand sign Hand sign “White Two crossed Initials SWS, with Power” forearms the two S’s (23rd letter) (lightning bolts) and a bear claw and 88 Hitler Salute SS Hand sign Hand sign “Heil Hand sign "Heil Hitler" or hands to make Hitler” a lightning bolt th "Sieg Heil." (8 letter) symbol Ku Klux Klan Supreme White Aryan Hand sign Alliance Brotherhood angling the Hand sign of TX index and Represent the Hand sign middle finger to number 43, A & B = 1 & 2 look like a “K” SWA = 19+23+1 Vinlanders Aryan Circle Okay Hand sign Social Club Hand sign Hand sign A & C = 1 & 3 Used by many for the purpose holding up the of trolling first, second, and liberals fourth fingers of one hand Aryan Nations Peckerwood Volksfront Hand sign Hand sign “Bolts up” hand Hand sign Originally a 1-handed V into a pistol racial epithet or 2-handed shape and against whites, VF pointing it now WP upwards Peckerwood White Power Hand sign European Hand sign Kindred diamond-shaped swastika inside a larger 2-handed W Hand sign Iron Cross. Inside the & P. E & K swastika are SS bolts; outside the Iron Cross are the numbers 23/16 © 2019 Terry Oroszi Hate Symbology: Hand Signs White supremacists, primarily on The Solid Wood Soldiers are a Texas- The hand sign of the the West Coast, may use a two- based white supremacist prison gang. Hammerskins, a racist skinhead handed hand sign consisting of The tattoo consists of the initials SWS, group, consists of two crossed one hand showing or flashing two with the two S's represented by forearms emulating the "crossed lightning bolts. Above the initials fingers and the other hand hammers" of the Hammerskins appears the image of a bear claw, showing or flashing three fingers. logo. with the number 4 in the middle and sometimes the letters HCRL. The number 88 is a symbolically The Nazi salute debuted in Nazi In the 2000s, white supremacists important number for white Germany in the 1930s as a way to created a handsign intended to supremacists (who use it as a pay homage to Adolf Hitler. It memorialize the Schutzstaffeln or SS numeric code for "Heil Hitler"), so consists of raising an of Nazi Germany, Hitler's secret occasionally a white supremacist outstretched right arm with the police, political army, and will use a hand sign to display or palm down. concentration camp guards. flash the number 88. The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Some Ku Klux Klan members The Supreme White Alliance a prison gang, uses a hand use a hand sign that consists of was a hardcore racist symbol consisting of a raised angling the index and middle skinhead gang based primarily index finger and raised ring and fingers out to the side in order in the Midwest. little fingers, signifying the to look vaguely like the letter numbers 1 and 2. "K." A common hand gesture used by The hand sign used by the many on the for the purpose of The Aryan Circle is one of the Vinlanders Social Club, a racist trolling liberals, the symbol largest white supremacist prison skinhead gang, consists of eventually came to be used by gangs in the US. holding up the first, second, and actual white supremacists as well. fourth fingers of one hand. Caution must be used in evaluating instances of this symbol's use. The term "peckerwood" originated Members of the white supremacist The largest white supremacist as a racial epithet directed at group Volksfront used several prison gang in Tennessee is whites. It has been adopted by the handsigns to represent their gang. Aryan Nations (a different group white supremacist prison gang A common one-handed sign than the neo-Nazi group of the subculture, especially in southern features the fingers of the right same name). and western states, to refer to hand divided into a "V" shape, itself. often held over the chest. Some white supremacists, The European Kindred is a Peckerwood Midwest is a white particularly in California, may white supremacist prison supremacist gang based primarily use a two-handed handsign in gang based primarily in in Missouri, active both in prisons which one hand forms the letter Oregon. and on the streets. "W" and the other hand forms the letter "P," to represent WP or "White Power." © 2019 Terry Oroszi Hate Symbology: LOGOs Soldiers of Aryan Advanced White Alabama Aryan The American 211 Crew Culture Society Brotherhood Front The Aryan The Aryan American Identity Cowboy The Aryan Brotherhood of The Aryan Circle Movement Texas Brotherhood Knights Aryan Aryan Nations Renaissance The Aryan Aryan Nations Tennessee Society Terror Brigade Aryan Warriors Atomwaffen Mystic Insignia of Division Blood & Honour a Klansman Blue-eyed Devil Bound for Glory COORS Comrades Brothers of of our Racial Crazy White The Creativity Brotherhood Forever White Warriors Struggle Boy/s Movement Firm 22 Daily Stormer The European Free America Crew 1488 Book Clubs Kindred Firm 22 Rally © 2019 Terry Oroszi Hate Symbology: LOGOs The 211 Crew is a Soldiers of Aryan The Advanced White The Alabama Aryan The American Front is large racist prison Culture (SAC) is a Society is a small Brotherhood is an a longstanding racist gang based in large Utah-based white supremacist independent gang and skinhead group.