If I was superstitious I would say that this is a bad omen, much as the weather report for D.C. tomorrow is a bad omen. (Rain and possibility of flash flooding.) In any event, it’s not right to make light of the death of anybody serving in uniform, whatever event they were preparing for or why. That is, unfortunately, what happened.
Now, the plot thickens. Right after the posting of this, a denial was posted. Here’s what CBS posted on the subject.
A 40-year-old Army pilot was killed, and a second pilot was injured, in a helicopter training accident Wednesday evening at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, the Army post said.
The soldier killed was identified Friday by the 101st Airborne Division as Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright.
In a post to social media earlier Friday, the 101st Airborne Division said the incident involving an AH-64 Apache helicopter had occurred in “preparation for the Army’s 250th birthday,” the festival and parade being held in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the Army’s 250th anniversary — that also coincides with President Trump’s 79th birthday.
However, in a follow-up post, the division said it wanted to “clarify” that the incident “occurred during a routine attack aviation training mission inside the Fort Campbell training area. The crew was not in direct support of Week of the Eagles or Army Birthday.”
A spokesperson for the 101st Airborne Division also told CBS News by phone Friday that the training exercise had “100% nothing to do with the birthday parade in D.C.” and was simply “happening while the Army prepares for the 250th birthday date.”
It looks like there is a clear effort to de-politicize an event which lends itself to politicization — which, in this day and age, is everything, let’s face it. The Army did a 180 on this, first the news was that the man was lost “in preparation” for the Army’s birthday, next you know they’re saying the training exercise had “100% nothing to do with the birthday.” It can’t be both. It is one or it is the other. I can’t blame whomever made this decision to kill the news story, but it follows that old axiom that the cover up is worse than the crime, frequently. And let’s face a deeper truth: this may not be the only death associated with Trump and his North Korean-level extravaganza this weekend.
No, this isn't North Korea you're seeing.pic.twitter.com/WXkCtk6Trt
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 13, 2025
A lot of people will be in the streets demonstrating, a lot of hardware will be on the streets, all kinds of things can happen. It’s not a good sign that this accident was immediately reframed like it was. If the pilot was going to fly one of the helicopters, then he was. We have been told that many helicopters will be in the sky. It’s tragic, in any event, that he was killed during a training exercise for any reason. But the hush up lends a certain sinister quality to what is already a tragic event.
I’m not going to say that Pete Hegseth or one of his aides jumped on this immediately, but somebody did. And it was somebody who was optics conscience and felt that the training accident had to be reframed and stat. The problem with that, is it makes the accident subject to the Streisand effect. Now that people are being told, no no it has nothing to do with the birthday, 100% nothing to do — all anybody can ask is “What did this have to do with the birthday?”
Trump’s America is full of this. That’s the larger tragedy here, going beyond the death of one soldier. In death, the poor man got caught up in Trump’s America.
Its pathetic. Service men sucking trump’s dick. Supposed “proud” Americans sucking trump’s dick.
They make me sick! 🤢
As a vet, from a family of vets, they either deliberately or unwittingly are in violation of their oath to defend the CONSTITUTION. Trump, through his barrage of bullshit and bluster, has, from the moment he entered politics,(remember the national tour to promote the Obama birth certificate LIE?), he has clearly shown he is a fascist white supremacist. That’s just one awful description as is malignant narcissist. Either way, no one who knows the more valiant part of our history, including our former Republic, should pick up a weapon to support a nazi in orange makeup. A draft dodger, who has shown disdain and disrespect for the military over and over, and is ONLY interested in using them to HIS GOAL…DICTATORSHIP. It’s treasonous to wear a uniform, paid for in blood, in support of democracy in order to just be a pawn in this criminal’s gambit.