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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm thinking a bit about the infamous "Kid Rock Apache Flyover"
By now you know the story: on Saturday, March 29, two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters assigned to 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (the 101st Airborne's Apache battalion) hovered over the Nashville palace of one Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie. In response, the Army initially grounded the four aviators involved. On Tuesday, March 31, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the four aviators would not be punished or investigated.
I've seen the video. Kid Rock looks AWFULLY happy to have these birds over his back yard. He's known to be a supporter of the 101st Aviation Regiment, and the hovering just happened to be at a time when Kid Rock and someone standing behind him with a video camera were prepared to run out to the back porch and stand next to Kid Rock's Statue of Liberty replica while he raised his fist in support. One of the excuses I've heard is "well, maybe the crews wanted to see his Statue of Liberty." Don't buy that for a second; this place is big enough and he likes the Army enough that he's probably had at least one pool party for them at his house.
Dude, this shit looks prearranged to me, and when people started asking questions the 1-101 responded by grounding the crews involved to shift blame to them. Strangely enough, if this is true Kegbreath made a good decision for once.
Bread and Circuses
(2,045 posts)Im heart-broken. The majority of citizens are uninterested, not engaged and complacent. They dont realize how bad things are
Of course, were here and theyre others .
Irish_Dem
(81,250 posts)And very bad optics stateside.
GP6971
(38,012 posts)FormerOstrich
(2,888 posts)They were buzzing the NoKings event, too. That is far worse than hovering over what's-his-name yard. IMO, anyway
Jack Valentino
(5,011 posts)B.See
(8,494 posts)to be in the neighbourhood of the Magat Stupor Dome Halfdime bedliner, completely by accident - without clear DIRECTIVES from Hegsdeath, if not the RUMP himself.
And the fact that they also buzzed No Kings protesters NOT coincidental either.
The connection and message to to their dearly devoted Magat brained couldn't have been any clearer, like that Bible stunt, and that ai depiction of Trump bombing Americans, and all the rest.
The man's a menace. And an increasingly dangerous one.