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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsArmy suspends crew of helicopters that flew by Kid Rock.
Good.
Kid Rock posted videos of two AH 64 Apache helicopters flying over his Tennessee home last weekend.
— Forbes (@forbes.com) 2026-03-31T15:20:06Z
mercuryblues
(16,409 posts)For the people that order them to do that.
Norrrm
(5,046 posts)tanyev
(49,284 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,488 posts)Spazito
(55,482 posts)jmowreader
(53,191 posts)CAAF: Campbell Army Airfield. There are two airfields on Campbell: Campbell Army Airfield, which is used by most of the aviation units on post and is also where they fly cargo jets into, and Saber Army Heliport, which is pretty much for the exclusive use of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
It's about 60 air miles from Fort Campbell to Nashville and Nashville is congested airspace (compared to the airspace around Clarksville, anyway) so if the order of the day Is to fly for one hour, they will often fly over Nashville, keep going until the hour meter hits 30 minutes then fly back. The alternative is to go to the 101st's Synthetic Flight Training Facility and fly an Apache simulator, which isn't the same.
What is NOT common is hovering over anyone's home. They get more than a little upset if you do that.
Omnipresent
(7,450 posts)It probably caused him to crap his jean shorts!
Bigerhalf
(36 posts)These pilots are officers and know better.
MUST disregard illegal orders.
They are just Trump loving A Holes - Bust them down to Privates.
Send them over to one of the fronts lines as Grunts.
jmowreader
(53,191 posts)Given that, I can think of a few less-than-pleasant places to reassign them to, like Fort Hood.
bluestarone
(22,174 posts)The ones that order this shit NEVER takes the heat.
spanone
(141,602 posts)Initech
(108,772 posts)walkingman
(10,860 posts)BannonsLiver
(20,589 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,828 posts). . . if their flight pay is not docked and their next fitness reports are rated zero for judgment.
BannonsLiver
(20,589 posts)walkingman
(10,860 posts)JI7
(93,615 posts)and how was it requested ?
Johnny2X2X
(24,203 posts)He flew out of Lansing MI, or near there in the Army reserve. Several years ago he calls up our boss who lived in Caledonia and said, Hey, look outside your house and look up. Sure enough he was above his house in a Blackhawk.
Not sure how off the flight plan his house was, could have been right near where they were going past. Or maybe he was just supposed to go log some hours. But I think he stayed a few hundred feet above the ground.
2 of them though flying ground level seems dangerous and a violation of air rules.
Warpy
(114,614 posts)Oh, wait....
GiqueCee
(4,243 posts)... this trail leads back to Kegsbreath. He's just the sort of slimy turd that would throw the pilots under the bus for something he ordered them to do for his buddy, Bobby "Kid Shithead" Ritchie. Pure speculation, true, but sadly plausible.
ToxMarz
(2,929 posts)How do they even know who's house is Manbaby Rocks,and what was Manbaby doing just standing there waving at them. Any normal person not in on the plan would be freaking out, particularly a right wing conspiracy theorist 'celebrity' with delusions of granduer and lots of guns. This was planned by Manbaby and Hegseth for a social media post.
