This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.
Story Roundup
Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.
Situation Report
Contributor desk
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We're looking for veterans, active-duty service members, and military-adjacent humans who can write satire sharp enough to make a sergeant major file an IG complaint.
If you've ever written something funny about the military — or thought about it while sitting through a mandatory safety brief — we want to hear from you.
What we're looking for
Know the culture. Find the absurdity. Keep a straight face.
Duffel Blog publishes military satire in the style of The Onion. Our best writers understand military culture from the inside — the absurdity, the bureaucracy, the dark humor that gets you through a deployment.
You don't need professional writing experience. You do need to be funny. If your barracks stories make people laugh until they cry, you're probably qualified.
We're especially interested in writers who can:
- Write convincing fake news headlines that hit like real ones
- Capture the voice of official military communications (and twist it)
- Find the absurd in everyday military life
- Turn a 3 a.m. barracks thought into a publishable article
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