My current desktop wallpaper is this photo centered with a gray border:

our boy in the Middle East fraternizing with a local beast

** Update: I have a bailiff here visiting who’s served in the Marine Corps, Army National Guard, Navy Reserves, and is currently in the Air Force Reserves, and he took a glimpse at the photo and said it’s a Coalition Force member, not one of our boys, because the uniform and boots are not US standard issue, and the gun is M-16, which is American-made, so it’s one of our ally troops. The uniform is old-style from WWII days, so he’s thinking it’s maybe Russia or Belgium or somewhere around there. He also notes that the magazine coming out of the gun has black duct tape holding 2 magazines together butt-to-butt, which gives the soldier 2 magazines you can reload pretty quickly by simply turning it around and reinserting it the other way. He says in the military, they’re taught attention to precise detail (such as the way the boots are laced) so you can spot a spy pretty quickly in the ranks.

**Update 2: In addition to the old tactics of lacing people with bombs (suicide bombers or dead casualties), the terrorists are now lacing animals with bombs because Americans like pets, so a soldier would be there going, “Hey, puppy, c’mere,” and a remote terrorist would detonate a bomb placed inside the animal that blows the nearby troops up. Now there’s a standing order to our military to the effect of “Do not pet or feed the domestic or wild animals!”