Vets Slam Keystone Kash’s ‘VIP Snorkel’ at Mass Military Grave

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Veterans are railing against the “disrespect” FBI Director Kash Patel displayed when he embarked on a snorkel trip at Pearl Harbor.

Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” last year around the U.S.S. Arizona, which serves as both a memorial and a grave for more than 900 Navy sailors and Marines killed at Pearl Harbor.

Snorkeling excursions there are not available to the public.

William M. McBride, a Navy veteran and professor emeritus of history at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, told The https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/patel-fbi-travel-snorkeling-pearl-harbor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/patel-fbi-travel-snorkeling-pearl-harbor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">New York Times that he thought Patel’s trip was “horrifying.”

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