MADISON, Wis. - 
 
 Officials with the Wisconsin National Guard learned through social media that a National Guard member may have been posting inappropriate pictures of herself and other guard members during the funerals of fallen soldiers. 
 
 Around 6 p.m. Monday the Wisconsin National Guard released a statement on Facebook: 
 
 "It has come to the attention of the Wisconsin National Guard that a soldier may have posted inappropriate pictures and comments regarding their duties as a member of a Funeral Honor Guard. We are currently looking into the matter." 
 
 The matter in question appears to have stemmed from a private Instagram account. It shows a woman, who appears to be in the Honor Guard, taking selfies and complaining about the cold weather. The text that goes along with the picture reads, "Somebody's getting a jacked up flag." 
 
 Another picture shows a group of guard members huddled around a flag-draped casket and posing. It's captioned with, "We put the FUN in funeral--your fearless honor guard from various states..." 
 
 There is also another picture that shows the Honor Guard member getting ready to eat a meal at a funeral. She called it "tailgating." 
 
 News 3 talked with Maj. Paul Rickert, the director of public affairs for the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs. He said the guard just learned of the news via social media on Monday and are looking into the matter. 
 
 Outraged Facebook users say the guard member is Teresa Harrison. Rickert could only confirm that there is a Teresa Harrison in the Honor Guard, but he could not confirm that Harrison posted the pictures. 
 
 “We are currently looking into this matter," Rickert said. "We just found out about this just this afternoon, so we’re just starting to look into it.” Rickert added that the Honor Guard takes the job of honoring fallen soldiers very seriously. 
 
 National Guard investigates 'inappropriate' pictures from soldiers' funerals 
 
 Monday, February 17 2014, 07:50 PM CST 

 This image created an online firestorm, with some saying it is insensitive and offensive. Credit: Instagram snapshot 
 
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 A Wisconsin National Guard member who posted a picture showing soldiers goofing off while surrounding a casket during training for funeral honors details has been indefinitely suspended from the program that handles military funerals in Wisconsin. 
 
 No body of a fallen service member was inside the flag-draped casket, but that's not clear from the photo posted on social media. 
 
 Wisconsin's adjutant general, the leader of the state's National Guard, expressed his outrage. 
 
 "I was appalled by the offensive photos and comments that appeared on this soldier's social media site regarding her duties as a funeral honor guard member," Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar said in a statement Tuesday. 
 
 Spc. Terry Harrison, a member of Madison-based 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment, posted the photo on Instagram, and it quickly went viral Monday. It's unclear when the photo was taken, but it happened at a National Guard training facility in North Little Rock, Ark. 
 
 Harrison, of Milwaukee, has received threats via social media, and the Wisconsin National Guard has taken measures to ensure her safety. She's been a Guard member for a year. 
 
 People began posting screenshots and comments on the photo on the Wisconsin Army National Guard's Facebook page, prompting Guard officials to begin looking into the matter late Monday afternoon. On Tuesday Dunbar ordered a formal investigation into the controversial photo. 
 
 Under Harrison's Instagram account, this message accompanied the photo: "We put the FUN in funeral your fearless honor guard from various states." 
 
 The caption for another photo suggests that cold weather at a military funeral could result in poor folding of the U.S. flag presented to families from the caskets of their loved ones. 
 
 Commenters said fallen soldiers and the American flag are off limits when it comes to humor, and many called for charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 
 
 A Wisconsin National Guard spokesman said that although the photos and comments do not portray misconduct during an actual military funeral, they understandably have upset many people. 
 
 "A military funeral is the final show of respect for our veterans and their families, and we take that solemn duty very seriously," Maj. Paul Rickert said in a release. 
 
 The Wisconsin National Guard's military honors detail travels throughout the state for the funerals of veterans and military members. The group is expected to carry out the detail with honor and professionalism, Rickert said. 

 WASHINGTON — Just days after an Air Force POW/MIA photo scandal broke, a Wisconsin National Guard servicemember who posted controversial photos and comments regarding military funerals on social media has been removed from her duties pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation, the Wisconsin National Guard said in a press release Tuesday. 
 
 The photos and comments appeared on the Instagram page of Spc. Terry Harrison, a member of the Madison, Wis.-based 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment. Harrison has since been removed from the funeral detail indefinitely, according to the Wisconsin National Guard. 
 
 One of the photos shows a group of soldiers in Army Combat Uniforms, some posing disrespectfully around a flag-draped training casket, along with a caption that reads, ‘‘We put the FUN in funeral — your fearless honor guard from various states.” The other photo shows Harrison in a car, and the comment below it reads, “It’s so damn cold out. Why have a funeral outside!? Somebody’s getting a jacked up flag,” suggesting that the family of a fallen servicemember would receive an unprofessionally presented American flag during the ceremony because of the poor weather. 
 
 Harrison is the only member of the Wisconsin National Guard who appears in the training casket photo. The other soldiers in the photo belong to other units, according to Maj. Paul Rickert, the Wisconsin National Guard’s director of public affairs. Rickert said he does not know the identity of the other soldiers. 
 
 The Wisconsin National Guard described the photos and comments as “distasteful,” and said the organization first became aware of them late Monday. The images have gone viral on social media, and closely follow the discovery of another photo, showing an airman posing disrespectfully with a POW/MIA logo, which created a firestorm on the Internet. 
 
 The photos and comments do not portray any misconduct during the performance of actual military funeral honors. The group photo with the training casket was taken at the Professional Education Center, a National Guard training facility in North Little Rock, Ark., the Wisconsin National Guard said. 
 
 Mothers of fallen servicemembers took to the Internet to express their outrage over the photos and comments. 
 
 “We donated the casket our Lance came home to us in to the [National Guard] to use when they practice. So this is tearing me up,” Tammy Eakes, a mother of National Guard soldier Sgt. Lance Oliver Eakes, who was killed in Iraq in 2008, said in a statement which appeared on the ChicagoNow blog Tuesday. “I hate they have belittled the Guard this way.” 
 
 “They do not deserve the honor of serving our country. They certainly don’t have the mindset to carry a flag-covered coffin. I pray their families never have to accept a flag ‘on behalf of the President of the United States’,” Karen Meredith, mother of 1st Lt. Ken Ballard, who was killed in action in Iraq 2004, said in a statement. “We GS (Gold Star) Moms are no wilting flowers. Do NOT disrespect our children, or there will be hell to pay!” 
 
 Rickert understands why people are offended, according to the news release. 
 
 “The Wisconsin National Guard expects all soldiers who carry out this sacred detail to handle it with professionalism and honor … A military funeral is the final show of respect for our veterans and their families, and we take that solemn duty very seriously,” Rickert said. “The very name ‘military funeral honors’ underscores the importance we ascribe — both as the military and society at large — to such solemn occasions. These photos and comments do not appear to align with those values.” 
 
 Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar, the Wisconsin adjutant general who ordered the investigation, said he was “appalled” by the photos and comments and he finds them “offensive.” 
 
 “We expect all of our soldiers and airmen to live by a core set of values, in word and deed,” Dunbar said in the release. 
 
 Gen. Frank Grass, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon, has directed the Army National Guard to conduct its own investigation of the matter, he said in a statement. 
 
 “I am confident the Army National Guard will quickly resolve this matter and take swift and appropriate action,” Grass said. 
 
 Harrison has received threats via social media and the National Guard has taken measures to ensure her safety, the Wisconsin National Guard said. She could not be reached by Stars and Stripes for comment. 
 
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– A National Guard soldier has been suspended indefinitely from military funeral duties after a picture of her and other soldiers clowning around a training casket surfaced on social media. "We put the FUN in funeral," read the caption on the photo posted on the Instagram account of Spc. Terry Harrison, Fox 47 reports. The Wisconsin National Guard member has been shifted to other duties pending an investigation and the Guard says it has taken steps to ensure her safety after death threats, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Another photo to spark outrage shows Harrison in a car, with a comment complaining about the cold and saying, "Somebody's getting a jacked up flag." The photos and comments drew condemnation from the soldier's superiors all the way up to the Pentagon, where the chief of the National Guard Bureau called them "deplorable," Stars and Stripes reports. "These duties are sacred. America’s fallen deserve nothing less than our deepest respect," he said.