Pentagon chief’s remarks come after US army said crews suspended amid investigation into incident in Tennessee.
"Defense secretary Pete Hegseth said the crews of two US army AH-64 Apache helicopters that hovered next to the singer Kid Rock’s swimming pool while he clapped and saluted on Saturday are no longer suspended.
'No punishment. No investigation,' Hegseth wrote on social media. 'Carry on, patriots.'
Hegseth’s announcement came just hours after a US army spokesperson said the crews had been suspended from flying pending a investigation.
'The army has confirmed that on 28 March, two Apache helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell conducted a flight in the Nashville area that has attracted public and media attention,' according to a statement from the army on Tuesday.
The army said it was reviewing 'the circumstances surrounding the mission, including compliance with relevant FAA regulations, aviation safety protocol, and approval requirements' ”.
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If Hegseth is publicly thanking Kid Rock for getting an Army pilot’s suspension lifted, it implies:
•the decision wasn’t based on evidence or proper review
•it was based on celebrity influence and political connections
•and military discipline is now subject to who knows who.
Reckless, lawless, rogue administration staffed by inept and incompetent amateurs.
So the pilots get a pass for misusing a military helicopter to wave at Kid Rock from Hegseth and Trump.
This tells you everything you need to know.
The Kid Rock helicopter thing is, like a lot of things right now, both stupid and chilling, because it shows how casually Hegseth will waive away anything he perceives to be "patriotic" and righteous.
This is Kid Rock, the guy who sang about promoting pedophilia and who Hegseth praised as a patriot and who fits right in with Trump's administration:
Rock’s 2001 song, “Cool, Daddy Cool,” which contains the lyrics, “Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage, see some say that’s statutory (but I say that’s mandatory).”
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There is no DoD. Only a DoW!
You're wrong there JoeCon. It is NOT the DoW by law. But it appears the folks who still support Trump are lawless idiot worshippers.
By law, it is still legally the Department of Defense. While President Trump signed an executive order in September 2025 to rebrand it as the "Department of War" for public use, only Congress can officially change the statutory name established in 1949, according to 10 U.S.C. § 113.
What do we expect Shaw? For the bullies supporting the bully preznit and hege-wege the Departnent of War gives them a huge tinkle down their legs.
There is all kinds of chatter on the military channels about Today's Military resulting in the loose formation of two camps - those who are keeping the oath they took to defend the Constitution and those who are forgoing their oath to the Constitution by swearing their loyalty to Trump (insert your favorite adjective here - I like cockwomble but only because it's easy to say without teeth. I'm sure there are more accurate adjectives in your imaginations). All those involved in these conversations have carefully avoided specific words like nuclear and civil war but the very air around them quivers with their echoes.
LOL - about Trump supporting folks who are idiot worshippers. Oh yeah, and to take it a step further I see their worshipping ways makes them idiots themselves, despite all their self promotion of an intellect which is now revealed to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors. LOL
Priceless Shaw - absolutely beautifully put.
Current note: been following the SCOTUS Birthright hearing today. Trump was there to listen to his lawyer present the case. I'll have to double check what I read/heard because I thought I heard the Trump admin lawyer argue that First Nation children are both not citizens but their parent are? I don't know - my Vitamin D levels are scary low today so I have some repair to do before making declarative statements. Supplemental D is being delivered today so there is that.
Is this the same Dept of Defense that rescinded promotions for full bird colonels to one star generals simply because they were female and/or black and our POTUS did not want to stand next to them?
Grey... if you listened closely, you heard Alito make an argument to not follow the original words of the Constitution because the founders could not have foreseen birth tourism.
No word on whether or not he holds that same view as it relates to automatic weapons, etc.
Echoes of Nazi Germany getting louder and louder.
So I did some reviewing, got a dose of Vitamin D and feeling better although full functioning will take some time.
OK - it's as bad as I thought it was. Sauer was only saved by Gorsuch because yeah, that's Trumps position in a nutshell - if he had his way he'd strip citizenship from the very people who lived here for thousands of years before anyone decided to go exploring.
And that my friends is why we are so screwed. Trump's top lawyer argued a case in front of the highest court of our land and had to be saved by one of the judges. I mean... the dumb hurts. A lot.
I was thinking of watching the moon launch but no, the BF's puppy just crossed the rainbow bridge so he's kind of rough right now. I'll read about it in the morning. Nose boops - been a minute since I've felt OK enough to do that.
Joe Con the MAGA sociopath liar would also say Trump got more votes than Biden in 2020.
Well... the speech? Trump was Trump. He was wrong on somethings, he lied about somethings, and he was right about somethings.
Here's what I thought got right...
The US should have dealt with the leadership of Iran years ago. If we believed in the non proliferation of nuclear weapons, especially in the hands of crazy, unstable terrorist supporting governments, we need to back that up. With both diplomacy and force.
Trump stated that past presidents, at this point, back to Reagan, could have chosen to deal with Iran and they refused. That also is correct.
Yes, I know we have a terrible record in the Middle East. Yes, I know we overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran to install the Shah. I know, I know, I know.
Like the world, what we now have in Iran is not perfect. But we might be better off now than we were a month ago.
The problem is we've got a big ego guy who cannot face hard truth and who lies repeatedly.
Even when something good happens, at the end of the day, the POTUS is the same guy. And that doesn't give me much confidence.
If we believe in the non proliferation of nukes then why I ask does the butchering Zionist state if Isreal have nukes. With our blessings nonetheless? Hypocrisy runs wide and deep in America.
Also, te reason Iran is Iran today lies in great part do to OUR own interactions in Iran before, during, and after the Shaw. IOW, our own ignorance and delusions are responsible for the present mess. We helped create it and blaming EVERTHING on Iran is simply a lie or, another delusion.
It goes back to Reagan making an October Surprise deal with the Ayatollah, He promised him weapons for special favor... It just the first arms/hostage deal he made. Arms to HOLD hostages and later arms to barter for hostages.
Flashback:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/abolhassan-bani-sadr-argo_b_2810967
I was deposed in June 1981 as a result of a coup against me. After arriving in France, I told a BBC reporter that I had left Iran to expose the symbiotic relationship between Khomeinism and Reaganism.
Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the "October Surprise," which prevented the attempts by myself and then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 U.S. presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.
~ Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
RN… let’s not mix our Shaws. For us here at PE, it’s Shaw. For the Iranians… it’s Shah. 🤣
DM from my phone…
Peace amigo…
Opps, that's what I get when hurried... typing on my phone. Thanks for the catch and report DM.
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