Conservatives have mocked the US Army after a tweet referencing singer Lana Del Rey sparked misunderstanding.

With the hashtag #SoldierSaturday, the US Army’s Twitter page tweeted a photo of a lady sliding under barbed wire on Saturday.

The picture was captioned: “‘Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.’- Lana Del Rey.”

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Some conservative users on social media slammed the tweet, asking why the US Army chose to reference the “Video Games” singer instead of someone with a military or battle background.

“Is this a joke?,” Ian Miles Cheong tweeted in response.

“Our Army is doomed if a Lana Del Rey lyric is supposed to bring in recruits,” conservative radio commentator Jason Rantz tweeted.

As a reference, Daily Wire writer Ryan Saavedra tweeted a comment from World War II General George S. Patton.

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“‘No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country,’-General Patton,” he sent out a tweet.

“The US army is now posting Lana Del Ray quotes. This is why Putin thinks we’re a joke,” Desi Cuellar, a Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives, took to Twitter.

Some social media users, on the other hand, did not think the Tweet was a big deal and said people should just chill.

“This became a surprisingly controversial tweet. My hot take is this, Lana Del Rey is a great singer/songwriter and the US Army is a great army, and everybody should just calm down and enjoy their Sunday evening,” Geoffrey Miller, a psychology professor, took to Twitter to express his thoughts.

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“Lana fans trolling the US Army,” author Art Tavana tweeted, highlighting tweets from the singer’s followers making light of the issue and insulting the US Army.

Other social media comments indicated that the US Army is eager to use a range of alternative recruitment tactics.

Newsweek reported earlier this month on the United States Army’s intention to raise the maximum enlistment bonus to $50,000 for recruits who commit to six years of duty.

Due to a decrease in membership for a variety of causes, this bonus was established to attract new recruits.

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One of those reasons, according to Major General Kevin Vereen, was the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down schools and prevented recruiters from having face-to-face contact with young men and women.

“We are still living the implications of 2020 and the onset of COVID, when the school systems basically shut down,” he said.

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“We lost a full class of young men and women that we didn’t have contact with, face to face.”

“We’re in a competitive market. How we incentivize is absolutely essential […] that is something we know is important in trying to get somebody to come and join the military,” he said.