White Marine Corps Tweets Out MLK Weekend Warning: ‘Don’t Be A Lone Shooter’
A Marine Corps unit tweeted out a warning to its followers on Friday, advising them “don’t be a lone shooter” on Martin Luther King Day weekend, before quickly deleting the unintended reminder of Dr. King’s assassination.
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command, based out of Camp Lejune in North Carolina, serves as the Corps’ component within the U.S. Special Operations Command. Since 2005, they have been deployed worldwide to “conduct foreign internal defense, special reconnaissance, and direct action.” On social media, the unit tweets out from the account @MARSOCofficial, mostly sending out pictures to boost morale among its followers and issue safety advice. “Walking point this #weekend? Make sure you have backup. Stay safe!” a tweet from January 10th reads.
On Friday, the account sent out a tweet encouraging Marines to always stick with a partner when conducting patrols. In doing so, however, they invoked the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Don’t be lone shooter #MLK weekend! make sure you’ve got security- stay safe!” the tweet read, including a picture of a single Marine aiming a gun out of an open window: [MORE]