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When the US Army Decided a Chin Strap was More Important Than the Death of One of Their Soldiers

Spy Culture - 2019-02-28 - Original post - Cached copy

The US Army provided extensive support to the National Geographic film series The Long Road Home, supposedly to ensure it depicted the real-life battle of Sadr City in a 'reasonably realistic' way. But Army emails that I obtained under FOIA show they were more concerned with the fact that a helmet chin strap was wrong in one scene than in the fact the series depicted the death of a soldier who actually died later in another mission.

Why Does the Pentagon ████ing Hate Swearing in Movies?

Spy Culture - 2018-12-26 - Original post - Cached copy

One of the Pentagon's consistent bugbears when it comes to movie scripts is swearing. Whether it is from the mouths of military or civilian characters, the DOD doesn't like those ████ing cuss words. But why not? Given their various political and PR concerns why is bad language such a problem? Compared to executing prisoners of war or digging gold teeth out of the mouths of dead soldiers, a quick ████ or ██████████ seems trivial.

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