> In total, 39 Facebook accounts, two Groups, 16 Pages and 26 Instagram accounts were said to be involved in the network, which spent around $2,500 on Facebook ads.

Yea, sure, proof it was official? The DoD has 1.3 million active duty service members, 770,000 National Guard and 740,000 directly employed civilians (not subcontractors). That a few of them got together on their own and do this from their work computers is not unreasonable.