StratCom welcomes New Year's with a bang in its bomb tweet, then apologizes
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Steve Liewer
The U.S. Strategic Command’s Twitter feed had a blast on New Year’s Eve, then later apologized.
StratCom’s public affairs office sent out a tweet at 2:22 p.m. that made reference to “dropping the big ball” in Times Square. It added “if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger.”
The tweet urged viewers to “Watch to the end!” and included an embedded video of an Air Force B-2 bomber dropping a large bomb on a test range. Though the bomb depicted was a conventional explosive called a “Massive Ordnance Penetrator,” many commenters took it as a reference to StratCom’s best-known mission, which is preparing for nuclear war.
The tweet drew more than 1,900 “likes” but also plenty of criticism from followers who called it “evil,” “crass” and “unbelievable.” Several people used the off-color comment “WTF,” or its military variant “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.”
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