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Mattis signs order formally recognizing Jalapeno cheese spread as currency at all DoD facilities

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Mattis signs order formally recognizing Jalapeno cheese spread as currency at all DoD facilities

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has signed an order formally recognizing the Jalapeno cheese spread found in meals, ready-to-eat as currency at all DoD facilities. The move was long overdue for many service members who saw it as a staple of military trades.

Supporters said it would undermine the E-4 Mafia's monopoly on the cheese spread and reduce illegal trade on the Lance Corporal Underground. A few critics, comprised mostly of airmen, had no idea what an MRE was, or why jalapeno cheese spread was such a big deal.

Mattis dismissed the opposition as trivial. In a press conference, he told reporters that if Air Force service members continued to complain, he would "disband their pogue asses and reintegrate them back into the Army."

Read more:http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/02/do...#ixzz4ZTXMFp8G
 
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