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Marine Corps Backtracks Amid Firestorm Over Tweet Calling Tucker Carlson A ‘Boomer’

Tim Pearce
Marine Corps Backtracks Amid Firestorm Over Tweet Calling Tucker Carlson A ‘Boomer’
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The U.S. Marine Corps is walking back a social media post attacking Fox News host Tucker Carlson over criticisms he made against military leadership last week.

On Thursday, Carlson questioned the Pentagon’s priorities after it announced the creation of flight suits for pregnant women amid escalating tensions between China and the U.S. The II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Information Group (IG) responded to Carlson on Friday in a series of since-deleted Twitter posts.

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