When there are food riots due to crops rotting in the fields for lack of pickers, will they applaud then? Even Dubya understood that consequence.
Wanting to fight and kill Americans… what a great military we have here.
Hand picked flunkies
How quickly they forgot all about “legitimate political discourse”.
Seems another Natalie Portman role…with far less hair, would be more fitting here.
Failure of education. You are fighting FOR the people’s right to protest, not a man who would deny those rights. CONSTITUTION, NOT KING!
Did Trump promise them extra crayons the sentence before, and they were just slow to react?
They’re just young and don’t really know much about anything yet.
Shameful
To be fair the 82nd is lacking to say the least! Every time they have replaced my unit or we replaced them it has been a shitshow. Also 1 out of 9 Soldiers disappear a week from Bragg and they stop publicly announcing the disappearances in hopes nobody will ask about them.
It’s baffling to me. Of the veterans/servicemen/women in my family there is one who is vehemently against Trump and all the others probably wouldn’t notice fascism if it showed up to their house in a Nazi uniform with a little mustache. I am partly estimating but to be honest the most charitable explanation is that they are stupid/terribly uninformed.
As a Desert Storm veteran with the 82nd Airborne, I wanted to f’ng puke yesterday listening to him speak at Ft Bragg..
Hardly thunderous…
More like ridiculous.
Voice effect on Peter banter going to set break was hilarious
Not sure if its relevant or not, but the Marines have the lowest standard for the ASVAB. Take that as you will
Should cut the military budget or defend the military. It’s my tax dollars being used against me.
They are just happy that they don’t have to lose against Afghani goatherds anymore.
Sudden urge to exercise.
…my 2A rights. This fucker is going after everyone.
>Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by [Military.com](http://Military.com) reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump’s recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male.
One unit-level message bluntly said “no fat soldiers.”
“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don’t want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,” another note to troops said.
Service officials declined to comment when asked about the extent to which troops were screened, whether soldiers displaying partisan cheers on television — a violation of long-standing Pentagon rules — would be disciplined or if soldiers who objected to participating in the event, citing disagreements with the administration, would be disciplined or admonished in any way.
“This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution,” one commander at Fort Bragg told [Military.com](http://Military.com) on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “This was shameful. I don’t expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term.”
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Good old Alcoholics Anonymous, the racist 82nd.
They were screened beforehand for their political beliefs, no surprise there
Forced audience.
A simplistic view to a complex situation.
Disgraceful.
https://preview.redd.it/cyvt7rkbzd6f1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abf35ec7a3143d2dbabad60a377aefe134b4b422
When there are food riots due to crops rotting in the fields for lack of pickers, will they applaud then? Even Dubya understood that consequence.
Wanting to fight and kill Americans… what a great military we have here.
Hand picked flunkies
How quickly they forgot all about “legitimate political discourse”.
Seems another Natalie Portman role…with far less hair, would be more fitting here.
Failure of education. You are fighting FOR the people’s right to protest, not a man who would deny those rights. CONSTITUTION, NOT KING!
Did Trump promise them extra crayons the sentence before, and they were just slow to react?
They’re just young and don’t really know much about anything yet.
Shameful
To be fair the 82nd is lacking to say the least! Every time they have replaced my unit or we replaced them it has been a shitshow. Also 1 out of 9 Soldiers disappear a week from Bragg and they stop publicly announcing the disappearances in hopes nobody will ask about them.
It’s baffling to me. Of the veterans/servicemen/women in my family there is one who is vehemently against Trump and all the others probably wouldn’t notice fascism if it showed up to their house in a Nazi uniform with a little mustache. I am partly estimating but to be honest the most charitable explanation is that they are stupid/terribly uninformed.
As a Desert Storm veteran with the 82nd Airborne, I wanted to f’ng puke yesterday listening to him speak at Ft Bragg..
Hardly thunderous…
More like ridiculous.
Voice effect on Peter banter going to set break was hilarious
Not sure if its relevant or not, but the Marines have the lowest standard for the ASVAB. Take that as you will
Should cut the military budget or defend the military. It’s my tax dollars being used against me.
They are just happy that they don’t have to lose against Afghani goatherds anymore.
Sudden urge to exercise.
…my 2A rights. This fucker is going after everyone.
>Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by [Military.com](http://Military.com) reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump’s recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male.
One unit-level message bluntly said “no fat soldiers.”
“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don’t want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,” another note to troops said.
Service officials declined to comment when asked about the extent to which troops were screened, whether soldiers displaying partisan cheers on television — a violation of long-standing Pentagon rules — would be disciplined or if soldiers who objected to participating in the event, citing disagreements with the administration, would be disciplined or admonished in any way.
“This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution,” one commander at Fort Bragg told [Military.com](http://Military.com) on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. “This was shameful. I don’t expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term.”
[https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html](https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html)
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