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Vol. 15 · No. 121 · Saturday, 10 October 2026

Pentagon

Hegseth opens up new TradWife MOS

Army says new career field will allow warfighters to focus on lethality while someone else remembers the kids

DTS works properly after hack by rogue AI

Lincoln sailor returning from deployment already broke

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12 Sep Pentagon Newly renamed Secretary of War briefly feels something other than crippling insecurity Secretary of War orders maximum lethality, receives minimum validation 2 min 3 Sep Air & Space Air Force base renamed after Ashli Babbitt Pentagon insists new base name will really bring the country together this time 3 min 29 Aug Pentagon Pentagon finds Hegseth pullups as root cause of failures in Iraq, Afghanistan Audit finds lack of dead hang directly correlated with collapse of two nations 3 min 14 May Pentagon Hegseth budget plan just stick figure with huge tits Budgetary offices across the service branches are scrambling after receiving the ambiguous guidance. 3 min 16 Apr Army Pentagon removes 54th Massachusetts from Army records as 'DEI hires' "Recruiting an entire regiment based only on skin color? What were we thinking?” 3 min 9 Apr Pentagon DoD establishes strategic porn reserve after Canada threatens to disable PornHub Now our warfighters won’t lose access to the lube that keeps the Defense Department grinding. 3 min 2 Apr Pentagon Hegseth punishes himself with extra set of 47 pushups for leaking war plans "Accountability has been my watchword from day one, and my little boo-boo is no exception,” he said. 2 min 17 Mar Army Pentagon offers black recruits exciting opportunities as cooks, truck drivers "“All the DEI nonsense muddied the waters of where Black merit traditionally lies in the military," a spokesman said. 2 min 12 Feb OpFor NORTHCOM assures Canada new OPLAN Crimson just 'fun thought experiment' "It’s just a fun little thought experiment for our planners to get some practice.” 3 min

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