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Early on up until the first Avengers they were, but that movie strained the relationship due to how much the DoD wanted to meddle in the production. They didn't like the helicarriers due to realism, for example. And you can see shit like F-35's on the flight deck, national guard doing their thing during the invasion, Captain America straight up using an M4, things like that.
After that movie, the influence the DoD had was much more subtle if it was there at all.
Their involvement is blatant. They literally have a near century long intimate relationship with Hollywood as a well established recruitment tactic. It's hardly a secret.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93entertainment_complex
https://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/03/22/how-why-defense-department-works-hollywood.html
Damn didn't realize they were involved in every single film made by Hollywood. Really explains a lot about Finding Nemo
That totally explains why i thought about the military after watching dude, wheres my car?