DoD apologizes for tweet suggesting millennials would be bombed if they stormed Area 51

[Judi Lynn]

By: Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider   2 hours ago

The Defense Department was forced to issue an apology Saturday after a tweet was sent out the day before suggesting the military would not hesitate to bomb millenials attempting to raid Area 51.

The offending tweet, accompanied by a photo of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, was posted Friday by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS), a Defense Media Activity organization, in response to the “Storm Area 51” event, which was held the day after the tweet was posted.

The tweet received some immediate backlash online. “The military should not be threatening to kill citizens, not even misguided ones,” Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, tweeted Friday.

On Saturday, DVIDSHub deleted the troubling tweet and issued an apology.

Link to tweet

More:
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/09/23/dod-apologizes-for-tweet-suggesting-millennials-would-be-bombed-if-they-stormed-area-51/

[Tanuki]

1. Maybe now the DOD will address the moronic tweets of their Commander in Chief.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. Millennials are getting a little too old for this...

Many are nearly 40.