{"id":592562,"date":"2026-04-28T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592562"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:15:26","slug":"kid-rock-joins-pete-hegseth-for-a-ride-on-army-helicopter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=592562","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock joins Pete Hegseth for a ride on Army helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is thumbing his nose at the haters who were annoyed by the Kid Rock fly-by at the end of March.<\/p>\n

The secretary stepped in amid an investigation into the pilots seen hovering an AH\u201164 Apache helicopter outside of the rocker\u2019s Tennessee mansion. Their suspensions were lifted and they were no longer being punished for what critics decried as a waste of taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

Now, Rock and Hegseth got the last laugh as they rode together in an Apache helicopter.<\/p>\n

Look:<\/p>\n

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Joined my friend @KidRock<\/a> \u2014 and some of our great @USArmy<\/a> Apache pilots \u2014 for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!)<\/p>\n

Kid Rock is a patriot and huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America\u2019s 250th \u2014 home of the free because of the\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/7EyhlaCeUj<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJoined my friend [Kid Rock]\u2014 and some of our great [United States Army] Apache pilots \u2014 for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!),\u201d the secretary wrote in a social media post. \u201cKid Rock is a patriot and huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America\u2019s 250th \u2014 home of the free because of the brave.\u201d<\/p>\n

This got some people on X heated:<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, our service members deployed to Iran are eating SLOP on our ships.
\nDisgraceful misuse of taxpayers funds.<\/p>\n

\u2014 @Fievel131. (@Fievel131) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is so inappropriate! It cheapens our military, and it makes you look irresponsible of our taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dianne Callahan (@DianneCallaha16) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Stop playing with military hardware likes it\u2019d f\u2019ing toys. You are in so far over your head\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Schmeldolicious \"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\"\"\ud83e\udd85\" (@58isthenew40) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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We are losing a fucking war and this is what you\u2019re doing?! Fucking disgrace.<\/p>\n

\u2014 JustGus (@AFellaNamedGus) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You spent our taxpayer dollars on helicopter joy rides with Kid Rock? Yeah fuck you<\/p>\n

\u2014 Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Making the military political and destroying public trust in one of our most treasured institutions will be your legacy. In addition to losing the war in Iran and making a fool of yourself at every press conference.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Jackson (@hissgoescobra) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You need to go. This is tax payer money. Don\u2019t give a shit if he is a Trump supporter. You also authorized a fly by of his mansion. Military Jets. This is just not ok. Tax payer money wasted by you constantly. @potus<\/a>, this has to stop. It\u2019s ridiculous and embarrassing.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Sam Bailey (@sassigas) April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is thumbing his nose at the haters who were annoyed by the Kid Rock fly-by at the end of March. The secretary stepped in amid an investigation into the pilots seen hovering an AH\u201164 Apache helicopter outside of the rocker\u2019s Tennessee mansion. Their suspensions were lifted and they were no… Continue reading Kid Rock joins Pete Hegseth for a ride on Army helicopter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}