Posted on Nov 6, 2016
Airmen greet Donald Trump at TIA in uniform, but that may not be cool with military policy
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It appears they were in a public place and it wasn't a scheduled event. If a politician walked into a public place where uniformed military were present should they run and hide or avoid him altogether? Did they have a speech endorsing the candidate or was it just a casual meet and greet?
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Agree. What the article doesn't say it that MacDill runway is currently closed for resurfacing and some of its KC-135s are operating out of TIA. With all focus on this part of Florida and the many campaign flights in/out of TIA it's certainly probable that maintainers can/will come into contact with one of the candidates or their surrogates.
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Capt Chris McVeigh
The article does in fact say that. Also, "come into contact" is very different than "form large group at the candidate's plane, take pictures/video and post to social media". Do what you want as a private citizen, but don't drag the DoD into your political activities, there is a reason the policies exist the way they do.
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