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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
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DENVER, CO — The Phony Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation's leading military fakers' organization — representing fake members from all service branches — has gone on the offensive in the fight against military bloggers.
PVFW fired back with a public relations offensive, speaking with reporters and establishing a password-protected blog on their website devoted to peer-reviewed development of members' stories of their superhuman valor and heroism.
"Because of these milbloggers' relentless assault on our First Amendment-protected right to lie about brief, unglamorous or nonexistent military service," PVFW chairman Michael Spurwick told reporters, "several of our members have suffered irreparable damage to their reputations, and a few have even had their businesses and careers ruined, after being exposed as frauds. Something had to be done."
Spurwick, a former Army sergeant, who was promoted to General before retiring as a Captain, has a long and impressive career of made-up military service.
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