Army reviewing apparent military helicopter flyby at Kid Rock's house

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Washington — The Army said Monday that it has launched a reappraisal aft vocalist and rapper Kid Rock shared a video to societal media that appears to amusement a brace of Apache helicopters flying extracurricular of his Tennessee house.

Major Montrell Russell, a spokesperson for the Army, said successful a connection that it is alert of the video that purports to amusement the AH-64 Apache helicopters operating adjacent Kid Rock's house, located adjacent Nashville.

"Army aviators indispensable adhere to strict information standards, professionalism, and established formation regulations," Russell said. "An administrative reappraisal is underway to measure the ngo and verify compliance with regulations and airspace requirements. Appropriate enactment volition beryllium taken if immoderate violations are found."

Kid Rock posted the videos to his societal media accounts Saturday. In 1 post, a chopper is seen hovering extracurricular of his location portion helium stands poolside adjacent to a replica of the Statue of Liberty and salutes the pilots earlier they alert away.

"God Bless America and each those who person made the eventual sacrifice to support her," the vocalist wrote successful a station connected X accompanying the first 26-second-long video.

In a second, shorter video besides shared to societal media, Kid Rock is seen from a antithetic space pumping his fist astatine the archetypal chopper extracurricular of his house. A 2nd chopper past appears to alert past.

Seen connected the video is simply a motion for the "Southern White House," the 27,000 square-foot location that Kid Rock built extracurricular of Nashville respective years ago, according to a 2022 Fox News clip.

It's unclear wherefore the helicopters hovered extracurricular of the singer's location and what they were doing successful the area. Demonstrators participated successful "No Kings" rallies crossed the country, including successful Nashville, connected Saturday successful protestation of President Trump. Kid Rock is an state of the president and visited him successful the Oval Office past year.

"Our pilots bash regularly alert routes extracurricular the Fort Campbell area," Maj. Jonathon Bless, nationalist affairs serviceman for the 101st Airborne Division, told CBS affiliate WTVF. "We conscionable don't cognize if it was incidental oregon if it was deliberate."

Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.

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