The Duffel Blog: A website you’ll love
Do you know about the Duffel Blog website? It’s one of the funniest things we’ve come across. Check out their monthly news roundup. This stuff is out there. Writing mostly under pen names, the tribe of former and current service members behind the satirical Duffel Blog regularly lampoons military leaders, blasts the bureaucracy and mocks policy.
You might think the Pentagon — zealous about message control — would be scrambling to unmask the scribes and shut down a site that has managed to find humor even in taboo subjects such as the force’s suicide epidemic, the sexual assault crisis and the psychiatric wounds of combat. But big surprise – the brass seems to be laughing along, for the most part, as the once-obscure site has become a widely read guilty pleasure at the Pentagon and at military bases around the country and the world.
Check out the greatest exit speech my a military commander you will ever hear.
Not sure what would happen to police officers if they did something like this. Probably the chief would not be laughing.