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The Army pilots who hovered two helicopters near Kid Rock’s Tennessee home during a training run while he clapped and saluted have had their suspension lifted, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.

“No punishment. No Investigation. Carry on, patriots,” Hegseth said in a social media post.

Earlier, a U.S. Army spokesperson said the crews of the two AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell were suspended from flying, pending an investigation into their actions. The suspension was a discretionary — but not unusual — step when an investigation is underway, Maj. Montrell Russell said in statement.

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Great use of taxpayer money. No waste, fraud, or abuse to see here.

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“No punishment. No Investigation. Carry on, patriots,” Hegseth said in a social media post.

Criminals all the way down.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"No punishment. No Investigation. Carry on, patriots" is what we'll say when Trump, Kegseth and the people who enabled them are mysteriously assassinated.

[–] StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 days ago

The only people who have tried to assassinate any of them have been MAGA.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kid Rock is really the ultimate argument against celebrity culture lol.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I'm sure undermining your officers like this is great for morale and discipline of the troops under them. Great job Dumb McNamara.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These guys must be sucking each others dicks with the greatest of expertise.

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Quantity has a quality of its own

They are no more than 40 percent.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That'll teach em

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Could someone explain to me what’s the shit all about the two pilots overing above kid rock ? Why was it an offense ?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Military personnel taking time out of their taxpayer-funded training exercise to get some social media material.

As former enlisted, an argument could be made they were AWOL. They were not in their designated place at their designated time, and did not have permission to do the thing they did.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Do you know what their orders were? Are you sure they weren't in their designated zone? Or are you just mad because it was Kid Rock?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because I'm fucking paying for it?

[–] Town@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How much could it have cost?

[–] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

"It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost? $10?"

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you like to know how much it costs per minute to operate an Apache helicopter? Here’s a hint; it’s a lot. Now where the fuck do you think that money comes from?

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was in the impression that it was order

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

You're repeating yourself.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can you explain why it is acceptable for some random chucklefucks to take a 50 million dollar piece of equipment out for a joyride to give a tik tok opportunity to Kid Fucking Rock?

Or in this day and age why we want to normalize military aircraft flying wherever they want over US cities?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you think that enlisted personnel that are in charge of expensive equipment are micromanaged to that level? Aircraft are given a zone they should be operating in and I doubt they went "awol." The only reason this incident matters is because they flew next to a person with somewhat popular social media. Hell a friend of mine did basically the same thing when he was doing some O-rides back in the day. Though he was in a V-22 osprey instead of an Apache.

No, the only reason that it matters is that the federal government and military are letting Trump and his friends have whatever fun they want at our expense.

Why do you think the drunkard had to cancel any investigations and let them off?

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I was in the impression that it was order by someone.

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

I'm sure the investigation will clear that right up

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, you were under the impression that you could sow doubt where none is due.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

No. Fuck Kid Rock and Hegset. I really didn’t understand how two Apache could fly by Kid Rock’s house without being authorized by someone. There’s radar cover everywhere, how could the civil and military could not call them back is beyond stupid and incompetent.

Anyway