There is a valid point when some folk point out that everybody killed in our latest conflicts joined the service voluntarily. BUT, since it's volunteer I also get pissed off that the military's recruitment ads don't give any indication of the real experience, the fact that you'll have to kill and possibly be killed; instead it's a lot of inspiring music with soldiers climbing walls, jumping out of airplanes, sailing mighty aircraft carriers, enthusiastic chorus's of young soldiers yelling "yeah!" while doing so, and teaching alien women to love (well I added that last one from the futurama when Fry joined the military).

Point is, this romanticisation of the whole experience disgusts me. If American politicians want to send people's kids off to die, they can at least not feed them a bunch of bullshit about what they'll be facing. It's not like they can't make ads showing a realistic portrayal of the experience, we already have them out in Canada!

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mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on . The misleading nature of American military recruitment ads There is a valid point when some folk point out that everybody killed in our latest conflicts joined the service voluntarily. BUT, since it's volunteer I also get pissed off that the military's recruitment ads don't give any indication of the real experience, the fact that you'll have to kill and possibly be killed; instead it's a lot of inspiring music with soldiers climbing walls, jumping out of airplanes, sailing mighty aircraft carriers, enthusiastic chorus's of young soldiers yelling Rating: 5