Twitter users jeer US Pacific Fleet for July 4 graphic featuring Russian planes, warship

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Quote:The U.S. Pacific Fleet apparently tweeted, then deleted, a Fourth of July message that depicted silhouettes of a Russian warship and fighter jets against an American flag backdrop.

Tuesday’s message consisted of a graphic image of a service member rendering a salute, the words “Happy 4th Of July,” and silhouettes of the ship and five fighters in a V-formation above a sea lit by the sun at the horizon.

Pacific Fleet, headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, did not respond to phone and email messages on Tuesday, a federal holiday.

Blake Herzinger, a defense researcher at the University of Sydney and a Navy Reserve officer, tweeted the fleet’s graphics with a message of his own on Tuesday.

“US Pacific Fleet Don’t Post Russian Ships and Aircraft on Independence Day Challenge 2023: Failed,” he wrote to his 22,500 followers.

The post had been retweeted more than 300 times and attracted almost 100 comments by Tuesday evening in Hawaii. Many comments mocked Pacific Fleet for the flub, although some noted that the Russian military regularly makes the same sort of error.

In a follow-up, Herzinger, a former civilian adviser to Pacific Fleet, tweeted a photograph resembling the warship depicted in the graphic and identified it as “a Kashin-class DDG,” a Soviet Navy guided-missile destroyer.

The aircraft silhouettes in the graphic, he wrote in another follow-up tweet, resemble Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighters.

Pacific Fleet replaced the deleted tweet with one that includes a photograph of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and submarine and the message: “Happy Independence Day! Celebrating life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for 247 years, and those who stand to protect.”

However, numerous commenters reminded the fleet of its error by posting screenshots of the original graphic. One person included a short video of dancing Russian soldiers.

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Aren't our military supposed to be the experts on how to identify 'ours' and 'theirs?'

(07-06-2023 03:07 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  Aren't our military supposed to be the experts on how to identify 'ours' and 'theirs?'

Oh please they can't even identify 'guys' and 'gals' anymore.

Nice of our navy to give the Russians a win.
Is the Russian ship still floating?

It should be pretty easy to identify foreign military craft since Russia is one of the few countries is the world that don't use military equipment given to them by the U.S.

Whoever did that should be separated from service, never to return.

If it was a contractor, the person who hired them should be sent to a base in Alaska, close to Russia.

It was only embarrassing the first dozen or so times it has happened. Now it’s just par for the course.

Our military has become a big social welfare program

We are gonna get our arses kicked

(07-06-2023 05:34 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Our military has become a big social welfare program

We are gonna get our arses kicked

Don't be so toxic shere

When being woke is more important than being competent for promotion and command selection, this is what you get.

(07-06-2023 05:34 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Our military has become a big social welfare program

We are gonna get our arses kicked

Don’t worry, Bubba will save us and the woke idiots. Always does.

sadly pervasive in today's culture. I grew up with models of American military hardware all over my room. Saw a video the other day proclaiming how badass this American helicopter was

(07-06-2023 07:58 PM)bobdizole Wrote:  sadly pervasive in today's culture. I grew up with models of American military hardware all over my room. Saw a video the other day proclaiming how badass this American helicopter was

That would be a Russian H-24??