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Vol. 15 · No. 122 · Monday, 12 October 2026

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PSYOP authorized to wear new tin foil berets

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FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Psychological Operations community has long been known to be sort of weird. They have reached a new high, though, after finally receiving approval from the Department of Defense to wear tin foil berets.

The metallic new beret comes as a compromise between the Special Forces community and the Psychological Operations community. While PSYOP argues that it was technically the first SOF organization, tracing its lineage to PSYWAR, Special Forces argues that PSYOP is dumb.

Many rumors surround PSYOP, insisting that they are: aliens, the Illuminati, window-lickers, Ben Affleck, and also a number of profanities. It is often difficult to surmise which rumors about PSYOP are real, and which rumors are PSYOP just fucking with us, though.

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