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appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
Mon Oct 23, 2017, 06:54 PM Oct 2017

Angry Vets Are Now Calling Gen. John Kelly A Blue Falcon [View all]

Posted with permission from Crooks and Liars
Here's what Blue Falcon means.

For non vets “Blue Falcon” is a term that stands for buddy fucker or a selfish or bad person. #KellyBlueFalcon is a hashtag. Good! He is!

https://deepstatenation.com/angry-vets-are-now-calling-gen-john-kelly-a-blue-falcon/

Here is where you can read some of the tweets.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueFalcon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-17661284873744081312.ampproject.net%2F1507685388117%2Fframe.html

One of many I feel fits
1st Sergeant (Vern)? @Top_Sergeant 17h17 hours ago
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#Trump & #BlueFalcon send troops to Niger without combat support. Troops die, don't meet plane carrying caskets & taunt grieving family

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That pretty much sums it up world wide wally Oct 2017 #1
Anybody who gets close to the Big Con is diminished... pbmus Oct 2017 #2
Exactly. Scarsdale Oct 2017 #17
Wasnt Kelly in charge of Guantanamo Bay? I dont consider that a good reputation at all. yardwork Oct 2017 #18
it is because Kelly fought Obama that he is where he is today. n/t SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2017 #25
Great reading............ MyOwnPeace Oct 2017 #3
Somebody needs to fill this out and send it to Gen. Kelly n2doc Oct 2017 #4
Goes golfing during funeral. toddwv Oct 2017 #5
I am so heartened to read these responses, annie - thanks for posting - Leghorn21 Oct 2017 #6
YW. I thought any Vets here would be glad to know they are not alone in their thoughts. appleannie1943 Oct 2017 #14
My uncle used to say Bravo Foxtrot. Iggo Oct 2017 #7
Kelly is an ass-kisser shadowmayor Oct 2017 #8
I presume the vets don't mean this. muntrv Oct 2017 #9
Wow, thanks for the post. As one who served in the US Air Force, happy to read others iluvtennis Oct 2017 #10
Yeah, and as if we're not getting ENOUGH shafting from our military's pursuits Plucketeer Oct 2017 #11
Haha! Ole Bone Spurs and Blue Falcon! JoeOtterbein Oct 2017 #12
The troops got trumped. Should be tRump's "Benghazi", for real, not the fake thing Gowdy trumped up Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2017 #13
Here's to General Kelly: sandensea Oct 2017 #15
Kelly politicized the fallen SHRED Oct 2017 #16
I hope it was worth losing leftynyc Oct 2017 #19
Apparently much like you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs mythology Oct 2017 #23
We called them "check valves" on submarines... rppper Oct 2017 #20
GOP losing the vets? Hey- Choices have consequences. You knew what you were lindysalsagal Oct 2017 #21
Gen. Kelly would be stunned, absolutely stunned, to hear of this. nt oasis Oct 2017 #22
John Kelly didn't sell his soul to the Devil tRump dreamland Oct 2017 #24
empty barrel better than kelly's filled with **** jimmy the one Oct 2017 #26
Kelly is a blue falcon Gothmog Oct 2017 #27
Kelly will probably quit soon, and so will Mattis red dog 1 Oct 2017 #28
Trump didn't send the troops to Niger though. 7962 Oct 2017 #29
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