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<\/a><\/div>\nWhenever a movie has anything that remotely looks like military tech, the producers turn to the actual military for help with gear that’ll look the part. But when Marvel came a-calling with The Av…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That’s fine, DoD. Let’s just see what happens next time Galactus comes a-calling; think you can protect “the homeland” all by yourselves? Blastr: Why the Department of Defense refused to support The Avengers Whenever a movie has anything that remotely looks like military tech, the producers turn to the actual military for help with gear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[82,4,3],"tags":[280,19,279,281,158,278],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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