I'm a total noob to programming but there were some things that I thought were odd.. Correct me if they're no big deal.
"<meta property="article:publisher" content="https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/" />" Why is facebook even remotely associated with the white house page?? I thought that was a government run website.
Then there's strange comments like this in the code "real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->"
And why are there two DOD pages?
https://dod.defense.gov/ < old
https://www.defense.gov/ < redesign
Is this normal?
Maybe someone who's better at this stuff can find more meaning in the comments on these pages.
Both of these things are normal. The meta property is simply to help with SEO and enable the Facebook like/follow widgets.
Having two pages while working to redesign can be normal. Many developers employ staging sites to temporarily house changes. Sometimes after swapping the changes live, the old changes live on in a staging location.