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> I don't understand this, I'm not exactly in the market for buying $1 billion military airplanes and missiles.

Where do you live? You're probably a voter in an area that Boeing needs a helping hand in Congress.

If OP is on a work VPN by way of northern Virginia, that might explain it.

I always love how surreal it is to ride the metro through the Pentagon station. Anywhere else, the ads are perfectly normal. But at that station? Adverts for tanks and fighter jets.

I get the same thing walking through San Francisco - ads for Cisco routers and "Network Security Solutions" obviously aimed solely at executives.

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