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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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CHATSWORTH, CA – After decades of complaints from military personnel that the American pornography industry fails to present a correct portrayal of the armed services in military-themed films, filmmakers in the multibillion dollar industry have begun to implement policies to better facilitate the demand for accuracy, bringing on military technical advisers to improve the acting scenes.
“I’ll admit, in the past, we’ve failed to hold our directors accountable and have failed the troops in the process,” says porn kingpin Jim South. “It’s a funny thing. Now that we have these advisers helping us in our knowledge of proper uniform wearing, technical jargon, and realistic combat scenes, the actors and actresses have actually started performing better in their fuck scenes.”
Captain Dale Dye (USMC, ret.), a veteran actor and advisor for Hollywood blockbusters such as Platoon, Saving Private Ryan, and HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, shares South’s sentiments.
“Back when I first got started in this job, the porn industry seemed like a lost cause in regards to accuracy,” says Dye. “Every film of theirs was just as inaccurate as The Hurt Locker. It was insulting, to be honest with you.”
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