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Vol. 15 · No. 134 · Monday, 9 November 2026

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BREAKING: Your morale

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According to sources, you have been standing in formation in the rain for the past four hours waiting for some general to turn over command to some other general, and your morale is about to break.

This incident comes on the heels of a recent case in which your platoon sergeant denied your leave request, forcing you to participate in change-of-command ceremony rehearsals for eight hours a day for the past two weeks.

Sources further confirmed that your first sergeant gave the company a five-minute break to eat chow and smoke.

However, when you arrived at the MRE box, the only choices left were a Cheese and Veggie Omelet and a rat-fucked Vegetable Lasagna, further eroding your morale.

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