In a account to Air Force Times, Robins apologized for the commercial attached the accident to the anniversary anniversary King, who was attempt by an apache in Memphis in 1968.
"We're acutely apologetic for any breach or abuse acquired by our aloofness and abortion to accommodate adapted blank of our business process," Robins agent Roland Leach said in an email Thursday. "The flyer does not represent the values, opinions or angle of the Department of Defense, the Air Force or Robins Air Force Base administration and its employees."
Leach said Robins admiral accomplished the advertisement was inappropriate "several canicule ago" and anon started demography the flyer down.
"There was no acerbity of anticipation in the flyer's conception and it was never the base's ambition to portray Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a abrogating light," Leach said. "It was an honest mistake, to which we've alone counseled the parties complex and will accommodate them with alleviative training and adapted blank to anticipate this array of apathy from occurring in the future."
The Atlanta Journal-Constitutionfirst appear the flyer had been taken down Thursday.
The 78th Force Support Squadron at Robins appointed the trap, skeet and antic adobe cutting accident for Monday at the base's skeet range. The agenda on the 78th's web page referred to the accident as the Martin Luther King Fun Shoot until backward Thursday afternoon, if the advertence to King was alone from the listing. The accident still appears to be appointed for Monday.
The event, with King's name, was aboriginal acquaint on the squadron's website Dec. 28.
"Again, we action our ardent acknowledgment to those afflicted by our thoughtlessness," Leach said in the email. "We authority the bequest of Dr. King in the accomplished regard."
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