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The Military-Entertainment Complex?

Uncle Fluffy writes: "Check this out: The Defense Department sent four Black Hawk helicopters and about 35 members of the elite Army Rangers to Morocco for the filming of the movie ''Black Hawk Down,'' a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.


In total about 100 military personnel were deployed rotationally from early April until early June to participate in the filming of the movie, which depicts the chaos in Somalia in 1993."