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.

  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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?

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      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.

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        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?

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          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