It's even more funny when you look at the two buildings just south west of it:
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=32.67507~-117.158324&style=h&lvl=18&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=6296260&cid=EF39AA8C9AD7035A!248&encType=1

Priority number 101 billion on the items in government I want to see altered. I suggest those that are agree the alterations are higher in priority contribute their own financial assistance for this work. Adding nonsensical financial resouces to a facility of this age is insane. Send your bucks and save the tax prudent straight thinking tax payers dollars.

I think it's ridiculous the way people react to the swastika. The government's going to spend money to change this building because people seek it out in satellite maps to be offended? Ridiculous! It's a sensible geometric shape (every room in that barracks has a window!) with a long history of pleasant, welcoming meanings in eastern languages. That said, the live.com map markup linked in the comments is funny.

This is just a coincidence... they shouldnt change it...

Some people would be offended at anything. The swastika as a symbol pre-dates the Nazi movement and actually can be traced to several cultures, including Native American as a good luck symbol. If the "offensive swastika can't be seen from the ground, don't waste tax payer dollars fixing a problem that doesn't exist.

it isn't just a "nazi" sign u know, It has been used by many different peoples and religions. today it is mostly used by Hindus, Buddhist and Jains. I am a hindu, and we use that symbol on all our sacred rituals and stuff. search the symbol in wikipedia.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/swastika

You would think something like that would have been pretty obvious from the original blueprints. It looks like some of the buildings may have been added later, but you would think someone would have noticed. On the other hand, renovating the building so it looks better from space is a pointless waste of money.

Someone should just do the changes in SketchUp and post it over the top. That'd save the taxpayers their hard taken money and shut the complainers up. LOL
I stayed in those barracks, in 1975, while I was attending a formal school there at the Naval Amphib Base.

Someone should just do the changes in SketchUp and post it over the top. That'd save the taxpayers their hard taken money and shut the complainers up. LOL
I stayed in those barracks, in 1975, while I was attending a formal school there at the Naval Amphib Base.

"then Google would be in a quandary"

Nope, not Google, us.

Your right. The other two buildings look like fighter jets going in for the kill. HAHA

Here is other "Swastikas" on Google Earth : http://www.geo-trotter.com/cat-swastika.php

Well, Have to agree that financing architectural renovations, purely for the sake of changing the look of a building in satellite photos seems like it should be pretty low priority. The symbol here maintains huge historical significance, but it is just that historical. However, despite the low priority, the cost of changing this building, when considered along side the breathtaking debt that the US government has incurred over the last 2 terms, it is mere water droplets in a category 5. Fix it, and while your at it, lets make the white house, ummm, blue and shaped like a carebear. It'll be more fun that way.

Its unfortunate, and the designer made such a glaring blunder that it's embarassing. But it's not worth re-designing the building - thats ridiculous.

This is not the Nazi symbol it is in the shape of a religious symbol the Nazi symbol goes the other way!!!!!

I think it's a fantastic thing. no im not a nazi. i am a peaceloving, nonviolent, racially blind hindu from california--as of last year im proud to say. mikhael(right above me) and bob ( see his comment about 8 or 9 up) are right. that is not the symbol of the Nazi's, but is that of the hindu religion. Adolf Hitler--when in his early days of leadership-- wanted a symbol to stick in peoples' minds for all of history and remind them of who rules with an iron fist--that vision obviously failed--and he came upon the Hindu Swastika. He loved how bold and strong it looked but he was determined to rule people with evil and chaos; not love and peace, the very thing the Swastika meant at the time. this put him in a bit of a predicament! He saw it fit to simply turn the sybol 45 degrees clockwise. and thus the one thing that symbolized the human capabillity to comprehend and substain peace and love was--once again-- ruined.

well not 2 offend any one but its no symbol at all has anyone noticed the huge gaping hole in the middle they are just l shaped buildings that point at each other if people would look closer they would see that. Does anyone really beleive this is a way 2 spend 600,000 dollars.

personaly they shouldent speng the mony needed for other efforts than to chang the shape of a building. what people dont relize is that if we the people spend money on things like that than when current kids like me wont have some of the acts that were set up when franklin D. roosevelt was presedent helping us get out of the great depression. becaus the funding for those acts would havwe gone into usless things like changing the shape of a perfectly fucting building. any way in atient times the hindews belived the swastica to be a very religous simbole. the swastica comes up many times before nazi germany addoped the sibole
it has shown up on the toumbs of many antient peoples of power. the swastica was only thought of a an evil/bad sign after the terror the nazis of germany inflicted. i think its crazy to spend money on something a pointless as that becauls some people dont like it and are offend buy it
anyway it is a satilite view of the building so its not like the simbloe is plasterd over the entrance to the place with Nazi Germanys moto

(im in 7th grade thats what i meant buy kid)

The swastika is also part of the peace, love and harmony enriched Raelian religion. Wasting tax payers $ to change this is moronic. I'll bet they didn't ask any Buddhist, Hindu or Raelian members of the military what their opinions are. This is no different than insisting that any crosses be removed everywhere around the country because the KKK used crosses and burned them while they acted out their stupidity.

Taking the swastika back and using it for it's true signification of positivity is intelligent. Wasting money for nitpicking paranoia is idiotic.