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Deputy Washington Bureau Chief @WSJ. Assistant scoutmaster. Go @cubs

Sep 18, 2020, 8 tweets

Aim high

And now the State Department wishes the Air Force a happy birthday by featuring the Navy's Blue Angels

Let's face it, it's been a bad week for fighter jet photos

The tweet has been deleted, but Marco Rubio just ran a photo of the Blue Angels, too

HT: @Oriana0214

@Oriana0214 Devastating

@Oriana0214 I, too, would like to wish the Air Force a happy birthday

Beyond this mistake and the Russian jets in the Trump ad, this past week also brought us an ad by Senate candidate Amy McGrath, in which she talks about flying an F-18 while showing stock footage of an F-15

The State Department deleted the tweet, but here's a screenshot

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