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Re:U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with ... by save_ferris on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @12:38PM (#23248917)
> I believe inside the special operations community, Navy Seals, especially Team 6, gets a lot of flak for the amount of insider content that comes out

This may be true, but it also reminds me of the long and lucrative relationship between the US military and Hollywood[0]. It's pretty well established at this point that the military is willing to pay for opportunities to look good in movies, like they did in the Transformers series. There's an incredible amount of money behind the scenes influencing military presence in our media, and a lot of people don't realize it.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-entertainment_complex

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Re:U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with ... by jcranmer on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:16PM (#23249334)
Amazingly, that Wikipedia article doesn't mention America's Army... a video game produced by the military for recruitment purposes.
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Re:U.S. arrests former Green Beret, son, in connection with ... by schoen on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:31PM (#23250768)
It seems like entertainment overtly produced by the military is mostly outside of the scope of this particular phenomenon, which is more about the military influencing the content of entertainment-in-general.
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