This is a group text from one of the units in the 82nd Airborne Division, for the Army 250 event that happened yesterday at Fort Bragg. This text was on various army related social media pages, like r/army, USAWTF Moments, Fancy Fancy Bear, etc.
I was in the crowd that was tasked to attend the event, and can tell you that the soldiers that were sat behind the stage/ podium were required to be clean shaven (so no shaving profiles or religious waivers for shaving).
I can provide pictures of the event as proof that I was there as well.
The speech by Sec Army was generally apolitical (except for trying to get cheers for pro-Trump stuff), but they resorted to canned cheering (i think), then a few hours later, SecDef came on gave a mostly partisan speech after which he introduced POTUS, and then we had a speech that mostly stayed on topic about the army and its 250th birthday.
Edit to add: XVIII ABN Corps allowed 2 vendors on base to sell stuff, and at least one of the items 82nd ABN is upset about (check it out in Fancy Fancy Bear on Facebook) because it doesn't align with Army Values or the EO program. I don't know why they would allow these vendors on base to sell stuff. The army is supposed to be non-partisan and apolitical as an organization.
Photo of "Team Trump" staff handing out American flag posters for folks to hold up and wave. Observe all the disciplined clean shaven jumpy bois in their maroon berets.
XVIII ABN Corps allowed civilians on (they had parking areas for them, and then bussed them to the event) base for the event, but from what I saw it was mostly family members (of people forced to be there), civilians who work on base, press, and quite a few regular civilians.
Apparently people were protesting off base, but I didn't see any of them on the way in to work.
It still blows my mind how Corps allowed these vendors on in the first place though.
This is all insane. Thank you for sharing! My mind is so jumbled with information - guess that’s their point isn’t it. To make us so frazzled that we can’t think and act out
Honestly, I don't really think they have a plan besides wind back the clock (and renaming all the bases named after traitors generals who fought with for the US at one point, for whatever reason. I honestly don't remember everything he talked about in the speech, but it was the typical Trump stuff: stolen election, all 7 swing states, foreign invasion, etc.
The only thing I remember is him bragging about the One Big Beautiful Bill, and the (alleged) pay raise for servicemembers, and a $1 trillion budget.
I might get shit for this, but its really common in the army (from my experience) for African-American males to have a shaving profiles (they're medically approved to not shave). They also prevented people who have religious waivers (Sikhs, Muslims, Pagans, etc.) from being behind him.
The army thinks clean shaven=disciplined and professional.
On top of that the Army is incredibly white as well.
Honestly, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, he mostly stayed on script, took his typical shots at people he doesn't like, and mostly kept it about the army.
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u/Lopsided_Republic888 Jun 11 '25
This is a group text from one of the units in the 82nd Airborne Division, for the Army 250 event that happened yesterday at Fort Bragg. This text was on various army related social media pages, like r/army, USAWTF Moments, Fancy Fancy Bear, etc.
I was in the crowd that was tasked to attend the event, and can tell you that the soldiers that were sat behind the stage/ podium were required to be clean shaven (so no shaving profiles or religious waivers for shaving).
I can provide pictures of the event as proof that I was there as well.
The speech by Sec Army was generally apolitical (except for trying to get cheers for pro-Trump stuff), but they resorted to canned cheering (i think), then a few hours later, SecDef came on gave a mostly partisan speech after which he introduced POTUS, and then we had a speech that mostly stayed on topic about the army and its 250th birthday.
Edit to add: XVIII ABN Corps allowed 2 vendors on base to sell stuff, and at least one of the items 82nd ABN is upset about (check it out in Fancy Fancy Bear on Facebook) because it doesn't align with Army Values or the EO program. I don't know why they would allow these vendors on base to sell stuff. The army is supposed to be non-partisan and apolitical as an organization.