Apache helicopters seen near Kid Rock’s home were on training route, Army says

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Two U.S. Army helicopters that were recorded flying by the Tennessee home of Kid Rock were following a training route in the Nashville area, a military official said Monday.

A spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division, in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, said their presence was “entirely coincidental” to “No Kings” protests in Nashville.

Video posted Saturday by the musician, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, showed him standing near an outdoor pool while an aircraft identified by the U.S. Army as an Apache helicopter hovered for several seconds near his home.

Kid Rock calls his Nashville-area hilltop estate the “Southern White House.”

In the video, he could be seen clapping and saluting. At one point, a second helicopter flew by.

“God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her,” read a post accompanying the video. The post also used a profanity to describe California Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying “this is

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