UNBELIEVABLE?

Whoever gave permission should be FIRED OR REPRIMANDED. The military should never participate in any kind of joke. It only tells you how Obama’s lack of discipline is still showing. Time to rein in these rogue players.

My opinion: It was time for a new leader at the Pentagon – too much Obama holdover lackadaisical mentality is showing.

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Military Apologizes for New Year’s Tweet About Dropping Bombs

 January 1, 2019 

‘Was in poor taste & does not reflect our values…’

US To Put Nuclear Bombers On 24 Hour Alert
Photo by ATom.UK (CC)

(AFP) US Strategic Command apologized Monday for a joke in “bad taste” after tweeting it was ready to drop something “much bigger” than the traditional Times Square crystal ball at New Year.

In a message posted, and later deleted, on Twitter, the military force that controls the US nuclear arsenal released a video in which B-2 bombers drop bombs, with the message: “If ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger.”

Amid the jaw-dropping and eye-raising on social media that followed, STRATCOM — whose slogan is “peace is our profession” — then tweeted an apology.

“Our previous NYE tweet was in poor taste & does not reflect our values. We apologize. We are dedicated to the security of America & allies,” it said.

A STRATCOM spokesman told NBC News the images on the video showed non-nuclear bombs.

About a million people were expected Monday in New York’s Times Square, where revelers since 1907 ring in the New Year watching a giant ball slide slowly down a pole.

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Someone’s idea of a joke should be taken seriously. Military should never participate in jokes.

NOT FUNNY.

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