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jmowreader

(53,191 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:13 PM 11 hrs ago

I'm thinking a bit about the infamous "Kid Rock Apache Flyover"

By now you know the story: on Saturday, March 29, two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters assigned to 1st Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (the 101st Airborne's Apache battalion) hovered over the Nashville palace of one Robert "Kid Rock" Ritchie. In response, the Army initially grounded the four aviators involved. On Tuesday, March 31, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the four aviators would not be punished or investigated.

I've seen the video. Kid Rock looks AWFULLY happy to have these birds over his back yard. He's known to be a supporter of the 101st Aviation Regiment, and the hovering just happened to be at a time when Kid Rock and someone standing behind him with a video camera were prepared to run out to the back porch and stand next to Kid Rock's Statue of Liberty replica while he raised his fist in support. One of the excuses I've heard is "well, maybe the crews wanted to see his Statue of Liberty." Don't buy that for a second; this place is big enough and he likes the Army enough that he's probably had at least one pool party for them at his house.

Dude, this shit looks prearranged to me, and when people started asking questions the 1-101 responded by grounding the crews involved to shift blame to them. Strangely enough, if this is true Kegbreath made a good decision for once.

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I'm thinking a bit about the infamous "Kid Rock Apache Flyover" (Original Post) jmowreader 11 hrs ago OP
This country is circling the drain Bread and Circuses 11 hrs ago #1
Lack of discipline on the battlefield gets you killed. Irish_Dem 11 hrs ago #2
Kegseth rescinded any grounding/punishment. GP6971 11 hrs ago #3
Remember, it is even worse.... FormerOstrich 9 hrs ago #4
Last hurrah for a musical has been slash, never was. Jack Valentino 9 hrs ago #5
NO way do Apache copters just HAPPEN B.See 8 hrs ago #6

Bread and Circuses

(2,045 posts)
1. This country is circling the drain
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:19 PM
11 hrs ago

I’m heart-broken. The majority of citizens are uninterested, not engaged and complacent. They don’t realize how bad things are

Of course, we’re here and they’re others .

FormerOstrich

(2,888 posts)
4. Remember, it is even worse....
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:20 PM
9 hrs ago

They were buzzing the NoKings event, too. That is far worse than hovering over what's-his-name yard. IMO, anyway

B.See

(8,494 posts)
6. NO way do Apache copters just HAPPEN
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 10:38 PM
8 hrs ago

to be in the neighbourhood of the Magat Stupor Dome Halfdime bedliner, completely by accident - without clear DIRECTIVES from Hegsdeath, if not the RUMP himself.

And the fact that they also buzzed No Kings protesters NOT coincidental either.

The connection and message to to their dearly devoted Magat brained couldn't have been any clearer, like that Bible stunt, and that ai depiction of Trump bombing Americans, and all the rest.

The man's a menace. And an increasingly dangerous one.

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