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Sen. Mark Kelly<\/a>, D-Ariz., sided with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on lifting the suspension of the flight crew involved in a helicopter flyover at Kid Rock’s Nashville mansion over the weekend and said he didn’t want to see the pilots punished.<\/p>\n

“Thank you Kid Rock,” Hegseth posted on X<\/u><\/a> Tuesday afternoon. “US Army pilots suspension lifted. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.” The U.S. Army aircrew was previously suspended from flight duties pending an investigation into Saturday’s helicopter stunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MS NOW host Willie Geist asked Kelly, a veteran Navy pilot, to react to the move by Hegseth on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not a Kid Rock fan. You know, I \u2014 at the same time, I mean, I don\u2019t see why we would, you know, punish these guys,” Kelly said. “Some, you know, young pilots in \u2014 whether it\u2019s an Apache or there were times, you know, I did stuff in airplanes that probably wasn\u2019t the smartest thing to do.”<\/p>\n

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Kelly told Geist he disagreed with Hegseth on most things, but said the pilots shouldn’t be punished.<\/p>\n

“So, I \u2014 and I generally do not agree with Pete Hegseth, you know, on anything, and I don\u2019t agree with his post. He should let the Army deal with this,” Kelly said. “But I would hope guys, you know, doing something like that \u2014 that\u2019s just kind of a dumb thing to do, flying close to, you know, people\u2019s homes, even when it\u2019s Kid Rock\u2019s, they know they\u2019re not supposed to do that.”<\/p>\n

“But I would not want to see them punished,” he continued. “I mean, these are patriots that are serving their country and taking a lot of risks with their own lives.”<\/p>\n

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The Department of War pointed Fox News Digital to Hegseth’s initial statement on X announcing that the suspension was lifted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kelly and Hegseth have traded barbs in the last few months after the Democratic senator had taken part in a video \u2014 alongside other Democratic lawmakers \u2014 where they urged members of the military to refuse to carry out “illegal” orders under the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Kelly sued Hegseth<\/a> and the Department of War in January over efforts to demote him and cut his retirement pay for participating in the video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A federal lawsuit filed in Washington D.C., names Hegseth, the Navy, the Department of Defense \u2014 now renamed the War Department<\/a> \u2014 and Navy Secretary John Phelan as defendants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/mark-kelly-sides-hegseth-lifting-army-pilots-suspension-over-kid-rock-flyover <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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