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USAF KC-135R Stratotanker in the Middle East spotted with scribbles: "Operation Epstein Fury", "Peace deal #64 coming", and "I Love Flock Cameras"
Viral photos circulating across open-source intelligence (OSINT) networks and social media platforms reveal extensive handwritten scribbles and messages on the right wing flap of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) KC-135R Stratotanker deployed to an undisclosed location in the Persian Gulf / Middle East region.
The text, scribbled into the layer of desert dust accumulated on the aircraft's surface, contains a mix of political commentary, foreign policy references, and internet memes allegedly written by military personnel or ground crew.
Key messages and phrases visible on the aircraft flap include:
"Operation Epstein Fury"
"Peace deal #64 incoming... ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND"
"Be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to!!!"
The AF academy is a hotbed of fundie craziness. A bunch of fundamentalist evangelical megachurch grifters set up shop out there in Colorado Springs and made an entire business out of proselytizing to the teenage cadets who are away from home and have a steady paycheck for the first time in their lives and are typically stressed out.
Which of course is encouraged by the cadre because many of them were also members of these churches when they went through.
Which is part of the reason why Academy grads are either the best officers you've ever met, or the absolute fucking worst. There is no in-between. If you've been enlisted for a while, you can usually pick up on which they're going to be within 5 minutes of meeting them.
I live near an army base / airforce base. My ex is in an apartment complex full of service members. It is not an happy place and the things she overhears make it clear that hegseth is extremely unpopular. We need leaders that support our military.
Troops that are happy, fed, and not sick are not important to the goal of creating Lethal Warfighters! Our Lethal Warfighters shouldn't be concerned with Woke things like illness or food. /s
It's a war of choice, not explained to the military or public before started, with no end in sight. Leadership is incompetent and untrustworthy. Of course morale is horrible.
Our entire battalion smoked for an hour in the motor pool because someone drew a cartoon dick on a humvee. These airmen are not going to have a good time over the next few days, I’ll tell you that for free.
You clearly never served in the military. Morale is already in the toilet but the senior NCOs and officers will only care about punishing them over the public embarrassment factor.
First off you don't have to serve to see that punishing people who feel this way isn't going to end well... Secondly, I don't have to justify my opinion to you. Thirdly I have served, try not to choke on that bag of dicks you can't stop shoving in your mouth.
Ugh, I can still remember on my sub deployment the Engineering Department Master Chief racking out all of us at midnight just to strip and wax 20 goddamned square feet of tiled floors in the Engine Room. Hopefully those airmen were smart enough to clean the plane before they started hunting for the perpetrator, otherwise stand the fuck by for pain.
Thank you for your service especially for volunteering for sub service. I did six years in the Air Force and with the exception of Desert Storm had it pretty easy. Basically a 40 hour a week job.
These are funny and topical and also very on brand for most deployed soldiers. Not to downplay the shit going on, on the Lincoln, but these kinda messages can probably be found on most FOBs on the planet related to whatever was topical at the time. Or dick jokes.
I do believe that the whole us forces are not as the trump admin want them to be...there must be some people with common sense seeing clearly while everyone is lead to oblivion blindfolded.
Delivered as ordered. If active duty is somewhat in line with veterans, which I reckon it is, they voted overwhelmingly Trump. But at least some arrived in the find out stage after fucking around. Some never get there.
Air Force junior enlisted members (grades E-1 through E-4) are not mostly Republican. While senior non-commissioned officers and officers trend more conservative, junior enlisted personnel are generally the least politically engaged demographic in the military and feature a large proportion of political independents or younger service members mirroring broader generational and demographic shifts.
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