Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

Hey, some of us college kids come here for the comedy and commentary as well! But we like the gun pr0n here in the engineering department, oh yes we do.

Interesting that you post that photo. It's been photoshopped you know. The real deal states "Iraqi Photos"... Thats what happens when improperly led SPC's and junior SGTs get their hands on a Sharpie marker. I bet Petraus would not be amused. Regards.

And, in fact, I'm the one who photoshopped that version of it. And deliberately so that it was detectable - both to make it a touch more PC, in that it was referring to a legitimate target, and as an example of Info-Ops. It was further useful in the discussion of Palestianian Fauxtography. More recently, it's been useful in a discussion of gallows humor - where a reader was just terribly offended by this sort of humor on the part of the soldiery, where I then suggested if they were going to hate soldiers for dark humor like this - they better hate the police, ambulance crews, and firefighters - all of whom have their own, just as dark in form and target, versions of gallows humor. I will correct the record and add emergency room personnel, too. One way you deal with facing human foible and it's aftermath is too make mock of it, as a way of coping. It's everyone in the group's responsibility to keep an eye on everyone else to make sure that it's a coping mechanism, and the people involved aren't shifting to more dangerous levels of stress. And yes, to keep things like this from being quite so obvious. And to make sure people understand why making it too obvious can, and usually is, detrimental in a larger context. Thanks for setting up my point!