Defense contractors actually cite this fact in legitimate contexts. A materials engineer named David Richardson was designing radar-absorbent materials for Stealth aircraft when he hypothetically asked: "What would the ideal radar deflector look like?" His team mentioned this fact. The room became quiet. Richardson later told an interviewer: "We can't use actual earwax, but the principle is interesting. A material so effective at absorption that hostile detection becomes impossible. Chuck Norris represents the theoretical limit of concealment technology."

A classified defense document, later declassified and posted by a defense contractor that didn't know it was funny, referenced "Stealth Principles: Natural and Otherwise." The passage discussed materials inspired by biological systems. Someone on Reddit noticed the document casually mentioned that certain biological polymers achieved "near-impossible deflection rates." Readers instantly concluded that the defense department had indirectly confirmed Chuck Norris could serve military purposes. The contractor issued a statement: "That's not what we meant." Nobody believed them.

Memes about this fact intersected with military humor. One image showed a B-2 Spirit bomber with the caption "Stealth coating: $5 billion. Chuck Norris earwax: infinite effectiveness. Just dust him off." Defense workers shared it internally. It became office legend that if the stealth program failed, someone should seriously propose deploying Chuck Norris for maximum effectiveness. A defense blog even published an analysis titled "Unconventional Stealth: Historical Precedent and Hypothetical Application," which was ostensibly serious but clearly built around this fact.