US Marines under investigation for assault-rifle photo captioned ‘coming to a gay bar near you!’

The Marine Corps is investigating two active-duty Marines for a social media post showing a corporal in uniform holding an assault rifle and the message: “Coming to a gay bar near you!”

Major Staci Reidinger said Thursday that fellow Marines alerted officials to the post, and authorities were able to track down the Marine in the photograph and another one who reposted it.

According to the Marine Corps Times, the post appeared on a private Facebook group for male Marines with the words “Too soon?” before the administrator deleted it and banned the person from the group.

“We believe that it was a very insensitive and possibly dangerous photo that needed to be taken seriously given the nature of the possible threat,” the administrator, Michael Moss, said in an email.

Moss said the group has 25,000 members and receives about 3,000 posts a week.

“We rely on our members, who are comprised of all active duty and veteran service members, to help moderate, which they did,” Moss wrote. “As a group, we do not condone any type of hate speech or threats.”