The latest installment in the Caped Crusader franchise from Time Warner unit Warner Brothers stars the girl-next-door actress.
Had Richard been able to choose the moment to unleash his knights, rather than having to react to the actions of an insubordinate unit commander, the Crusader victory might have been crushingly decisive.
These include the Crusader howitzer system, manufactured by the United Defense unit of the Carlyle Group, and the Joint Strike fighter by Lockheed Martin and the V-22 Osprey by Boeing and the Bell Helicopter unit of Textron.
And, of course, there is also the pesky little constitutional issue of a U.S. military unit having a big red crusader cross as its insignia.
According to the Beaufort Gazette, the squadron's new commander, Lt. Col. Wade Wiegel, just doesn't see calling a U.S. military unit the "Crusaders" as being "politically incorrect".
Why do so many military units continue to insist on branding themselves as Crusaders, spreading the word of Christ through war?
While the renaming of the unit from "Werewolves" to "Crusaders" in 1958 was obviously just because the plane the unit was flying at the time was called the F-8 Crusader, and it was all in good fun in that era to do things like dress up the unit's mascot, a little statue of a crusader knight, in a unit baseball cap, it is not at all cute or funny now.
The Obama administration tried to instill confidence in the effort by installing Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York state attorney general who is viewed by liberal groups as a crusader against big banks, as one of the leaders of a new unit within the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.
Timothy Stanley, a British historian whose biography of Mr. Buchanan, "The Crusader," was released two weeks ago, said he thought the departure was a "marketing decision" by MSNBC, a unit of Comcast.
But now, under new leadership, the unit is going back to being the "Crusaders," complete with an insignia of a crusader shield with a big red cross on it and a crusader knight as its mascot.
