FORT MEADE, MD – Faced with the proliferation of unapproved military humor sites that undermine good order and discipline, the Marine Corps has launched its own official humor show to counter them all.
The new series, called The Whiskey Locker, follows a fictional pair of Marines and their online show, which is like a cross between Tosh.0 and The Daily Show, only controlled by Marine Corps censors. To help Marines identify with the show's characters, it features the kind of Hollywood production values and realistic language people have come to expect from the producers of the Armed Forces Network.
"That was the day we saw articles in Stars & Stripes, NBC News, even the New York Times, about how military personnel were openly mocking the decoration online," Hauk said. "They even linked to the jokes. It was bad enough having Bronze Star recipients and their widows attacking us, but to know junior Marines were laughing at us behind our backs was just too much."
"We knew we could do better than all those amateurs like Terminal Lance, Broken and Unreadable, Doctrine Man, Bob on the FOB, Air Force Blues, or that one page that rips off The Onion," said humor chief GySgt Lydia Byrd. "After all, we have all the resources and brainpower of the Marine Corps' top leadership, and these guys are just random non-rates posting jokes based on their limited experience and education."
