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For more than a decade, we've deployed pitch perfect satire to service members around the world.

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

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Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

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For more than a decade, we've deployed pitch perfect satire to service members around the world.

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

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