[4][5] In November 2012, the site launched an online petition to the White House to lift the services' bans on hands in pockets.

[6] The website counts retired Marine General James Mattis, the subject of several Duffel Blog posts, as a fan.

[7][8] It has also received praise from former Pentagon spokesman George E. Little, various national security journalists, and Scott Dikkers, the founding editor of The Onion.

[1] The letter from McConnell's office to the Pentagon leaked in 2013, generating national headlines and subjecting the senator to mockery on cable news.

SPLC chief of staff Lecia Brooks noted that this claim had originated in a Duffel Blog satirical article that had appeared on the site in 2017.