“We would never do something like that,” a spokeswoman for the 75th Ranger Regiment told BuzzFeed News.
WASHINGTON — Since early September, the Twitter account @75RRegiment has amassed more than 30,000 followers by sending out photos of soldiers posing with babies, challenging ISIS, and fist bumping over beer pong.
The only problem? It's a fake account.
"Holy cow," said a spokeswoman for the 75th Ranger Regiment, also known as the Army Rangers, when informed about the account by BuzzFeed News. She said they were unaware of the account until BuzzFeed News called to ask about it.
The Rangers are one of the most elite special operations units in the U.S. military.
The account borders on the absurd with tweets like "You can't outrun my bullets ISIS," but also tweets that sound similar to those run by real government accounts.
"Very very cool to hear @AdamBaldwin interview with the @75RRegiment we wish him luck in the new season of the @TheLastShipTNT this summer!" one tweet reads.
It's not unheard of for various government agencies to run these types of social media accounts. The State Department has a Facebook and Twitter account dedicated to trolling terrorists.
But the Rangers spokeswoman said the account was definitely a fake.
"We would never ever do something like that," she said. "Definitely not an official Twitter."
The spokeswoman said she would make some calls to see if they can get the account shut down.
The account gets hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of retweets for tweets such as these:
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