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“No punishment. No Investigation. Carry on, patriots,” Hegseth said in a social media post.
Criminals all the way down.
"No punishment. No Investigation. Carry on, patriots" is what we'll say when Trump, Kegseth and the people who enabled them are mysteriously assassinated.
The only people who have tried to assassinate any of them have been MAGA.
I'm sure undermining your officers like this is great for morale and discipline of the troops under them. Great job Dumb McNamara.
Kid Rock is really the ultimate argument against celebrity culture lol.
These guys must be sucking each others dicks with the greatest of expertise.
Helo pilots aren't comfortable without working a stick in each hand.
Quantity has a quality of its own
They are no more than 40 percent.
Could someone explain to me what’s the shit all about the two pilots overing above kid rock ? Why was it an offense ?
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.
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?
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?
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?
I was in the impression that it was order by someone.
No, you were under the impression that you could sow doubt where none is due.
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
I'm sure the investigation will clear that right up
Because I'm fucking paying for it?
How much could it have cost?
"It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost? $10?"
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?
I was in the impression that it was order
You're repeating yourself.
That'll teach em