A deluge of mass distribution emails has once again caused havoc for thousands of soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On June 26, an Army message of unexplained origin spawned a chain reaction of \u201creply all\u201d emails, which soldiers bemoaned on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One recipient, an anonymous \u201cspecial agent\u201d with the Army\u2019s Criminal Investigation Division, was so flummoxed by the message that they jokingly responded, \u201cThis is Special Agent […] from Army CID, anyone who hit reply all is now under investigation. You murdered my inbox.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alas, public affairs for Army CID declined to comment about the veracity of the sender\u2019s response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust remember folks,\u201d wrote a user on a popular Army subreddit<\/a>, \u201cThere\u2019s the stupidity of \u2018replying all\u2019 to a thread with a distro with 30K people on it. Then there\u2019s the stupidity of replying all to point out your frustration about everyone replying all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of soldiers on the distribution list could not be confirmed, nor could the Army comment on where the email originated or its subject matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Army is aware of the recent emails sent to a distribution list, which went to a subset of the Army\u2019s email users,\u201d according to Jason Waggoner, an Army spokesperson. \u201cThe issue has been resolved and the Army is taking steps to prevent similar incidents in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One Reddit poster <\/a>suggested the original email came from a colonel serving in the Pentagon \u2014 a chaplain. However, this information could not be verified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis man blessed tens of thousands of soldiers, promote ahead of peers,\u201d wrote one Redditor in response to the rumor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most recent incident, which Military Times\u2019 Observation Post internally insists on calling the \u201creply-all-pocalypse,\u201d hearkens back to a mere six months ago when another reply-all tsunami swept up the Army in a sea of angry emails and, of course, memes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In February, an Army captain requesting to be left off a distribution list inadvertently replied all to more than 13,000 soldiers<\/a> with the \u201cFA57 Voluntary Transfer Incentive Program.\u201d What followed, according to an anonymous op-ed penned by an officer for Military.com<\/a> was utter chaos as hundreds more began replying all, kicking off a cataclysm of \u201cstop replying all\u201d emails. Eventually, this lent itself to the proliferation of memes, Rickrolling, and our personal favorite, fake Nigerian prince scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While office workers around the world know the scourge of being cc\u2019d onto a message chain so profoundly tedious it\u2019d make you want to claw your eyes out every time your phone buzzes with a \u201cNew Email\u201d notification, many soldiers found joy in the reply-all battle that ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI love when this happens,\u201d wrote one commenter on Reddit. \u201cMakes me feel slightly better about my dumpster fire working situation to be like \u2018at least I didn\u2019t email the entire f—– army today.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Army email apocalypse began on June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":40288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-observation-post","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":68,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,23,68,12,26,13,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3271],"class_list":["post-74053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-military-culture","category-news","category-newsletters","category-off-duty","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"POTQQE5JDFCSTCRIFCZYXKCJVM","arc_canonical_url":"\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2023\/06\/30\/you-murdered-my-inbox-reply-all-email-plagues-soldiers-again\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"observation-post","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmyMudPuppy\/status\/1673485704419237890<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n