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2008-04-02 11:32:07, 来源:未名交友 |
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Military Patches You Should Not Be Seeing by CTS |
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There's a guy named Trevor Paglen. His obsession is military patches,
the kind you wear on your sleeve. Many military programs are top secret
and only identifiable by two things: 1. An undescribed line item on a
Department of Defense expense report. 2. A military patch. He has
written a book entitled "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me"
(the emblem on a particular patch he has uncovered). The book is
nothing but a giant compendium of some of the bizarre, strange, and
often very funny top secret military patches the man has discovered:
CIA paparazzo Trevor Paglen is a thorn in Uncle Sam's side.
Known for snapping telephoto candids of CIA planes and Area 51, the
artist also gathers "patch intel," which he's collected in this
provocative book (main title: "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have
To Be Destroyed By Me"). The fruit of several Freedom of Information
Act requests, Paglen's book proves that classified black opps concoct
esoteric team insignias just like other military divisions. The
photo-driven work presents 75 de-classified patches with colorful
eagles, skulls, swords, dragons, wizards and even aliens (!). Surveying
iconography that was never intended for your eyes is both exhilarating
and frustrating. Decoding them is often impossible, which only leads
back to the obvious: How else are our tax dollars being spent in
secret? Unlike grainy, questionable YouTube clips of UFOs, Big Foot and
Loch Ness, in this case, seeing guarantees believing.
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From Amazon.com:
Shown
here for the first time, these sixty patches reveal a secret world of
military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by
peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "None of Your Fucking Business,"
"Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with occult symbols and
ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here
(such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches--which
are worn by military units working on classified missions--are
precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little
is known.
By
submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has
also assembled an extensive and readable guide to the patches included
here, making this volume one of the best available surveys of the
military's black world--a $27 billion industry that has quietly grown
by almost 50 percent since 9/11.
Trevor
Paglen is a geographer by training, and an expert on clandestine
military installations. He leads expeditions to the secret bases of the
American West and is the author, with A.C. Thompson, of Torture Taxi:
On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, which The New York Times
praised as "the real thing . . . and not on the evening news."
The New York Times has a story (and especially check out the slide show linked therein): It
is, according to a new book, part of the hidden reality behind the
Pentagon's classified, or "black," budget that delivers billions of
dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors. The book offers a
glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens -- patches -- the
kind worn on military uniforms.
"It's a
fresh approach to secret government," Steven Aftergood, a security
expert at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said in
an interview. "It shows that these secret programs have their own
culture, vocabulary and even sense of humor."
Some of my favorites from wired.com...
Just Plain Funny:
Tastes Like Chicken
Master Mushroom
Big Bird
No Fat Chicks
Kenny's Mom
No Morale
Sexy Nurse
Death Wears Bunny Slippers
Blues Brothers
By The Balls
Oh Yeah!!!
iNuke
Burn Water
Scary Implications:
Mercenary
Cryptic Alien
Just Nuke 'Em
Got Nukes?
Cold Dead Hand
When You Care Enough
The Sixth Seal
X-Wing
Just Plain Honesty:
Patience My Ass
I'm Here To Help You
Infidel
Iwackis
Iraqi Urban Renewal
Submission from the comments, found on milspecmonkey.com: Pork Eating Crusader
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