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DOD Forced To Apologize For Tweet Threatening To Bomb Area 51 Festival

Emily Zanotti
DOD Forced To Apologize For Tweet Threatening To Bomb Area 51 Festival
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The Department of Defense has been forced to apologize for a tweet it sent out on Friday, threatening to stick the Air Force on the hundred or so revelers who showed up for the “Area 51” fest.

The tweet, which took aim at Millennials (even though attendance seemed multi-generational), suggested that the “last thing” party-goers who gathered at the edges of the government’s secretive desert base in Nevada would see would be the B-2 spirit bomber, rather than the aliens they’d hoped for.

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