The misleading nature of American military recruitment ads

[B.Basher]

Also, i'm awaiting your response in my idealisms thread :thumbsup:.

[Psycho4Bud]

I watched it and in fact it's the same one that I originally posted. If anything I see it as a promotion for pride in a job that others wouldn't touch. I also see weapons and we all know where that leads. So do the recruits.

"You can stop pretending i'm making a statement about every soldier that joins."

I'm not, but by todays recruitment standards somebody that hasn't got the intellect to realize what may happen probably won't be accepted.

Have a good one!:s4:

[delusionsofNORMALity]

It's in the movies, on the news every day of the week. It's not like these folks are pre-teen people in need of guidance.

by the standards of the new liberal community, even with full disclosure of every possible outcome, we are still incapable of making an informed decision. with that outlook they can justify imposing endless regulations on the public and shape our lives to suit their own needs. even if those commercials showed nothing but endless rows of caskets, they would claim that the public is too stupid to understand that those caskets contained the remains of soldiers killed in battle. the followers of new left will not be satisfied until we all understand that we are merely children in need of their wisdom and guidance. they don't seem to understand that they will not be the ones in charge.
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[B.Basher]

"I watched it and in fact it's the same one that I originally posted. If anything I see it as a promotion for pride in a job that others wouldn't touch."

That's fair enough. In a world where rational, realistic thought overcomes the illusions of pride, I see it as desperate, shameless propoganda to lure the impressionable into an increasingly infamous conflict.

"I'm not, but by todays recruitment standards somebody that hasn't got the intellect to realize what may happen probably won't be accepted."

I'll never know for sure, but by today's circumstances, I'd imagine they ain't bothered either way.

Cheers.

[B.Basher]

"by the standards... ...ones in charge."

I'm at a loss for what this post is trying to say exactly.

[Psycho4Bud]

I'll never know for sure, but by today's circumstances, I'd imagine they ain't bothered either way.

Cheers.

This isn't the army of old where you give some grunt a rifle and tell him to charge. These people are dealing with million dollar computorized equipment. Hell, even the replacement for the M-16 is going to be computorized.

Have a good one!:s4:

[shaggzx]

The brainless idiots are the ones that join because they feel they can't do anything else, which is why a lot of people join, especially living near a base like Fort Bragg.

[B.Basher]

Haha, what? Do you understand what those facts mean? I sure as hell don't, and i'm not shy to admit it. A computerised M16? What the fuck is that?

Anyway, I agree to disagree. I have a somewhat predispositioned hatred towards all form of mind control and mass manipulation, which very much includes advertising and marketing. When political agendas come into the equation, I find it the darkest of human traits.

Safe, safe. Have a goodun yourself.

[Psycho4Bud]

Haha, what? Do you understand what those facts mean? I sure as hell don't, and i'm not shy to admit it. A computerised M16? What the fuck is that?

Ever watch future weapons? The replacement will be a combination assault rifle with a gernade launcher mounted underneath. The launcher can have the distance programed into it so the gernade explodes at a certain range instead of a direct hit.

Anyway, I agree to disagree. I have a somewhat predispositioned hatred towards all form of mind control and mass manipulation, which very much includes advertising and marketing. When political agendas come into the equation, I find it the darkest of human traits.

IF these recruitment flicks had a group of people laughing it up in a coffee shop in another country stating that joining meant to see new lands, learn the language and meet new exciting friends that would be one thing.......these adds do no such thing.

Have a good one!:s4:

[Psycho4Bud]

The brainless idiots are the ones that join because they feel they can't do anything else, which is why a lot of people join, especially living near a base like Fort Bragg.

Well, when you know how to operate a M1A tank or able to fly an Apache helicoptor that's when I take put some credibility into your statement.

Have a good one!:s4: