Army Recruitment Ads.

[nemesiswontdie]

I was going to Join the Army at 17, but that didn't happen because I have diabetes...

damn dude that blows, were u going to join the army or marines or wat?
im gonna join the army

[Mr. Spencer]

DIA-BEETUS

[Stars_g36]

I was going to Join the Army at 17, but that didn't happen because I have diabetes...

[nemesiswontdie]

my friend just got sent 2 afghanistan yesterday, i hope he comes back, he told me he likes being in the army so im happy 4 him, but i think i might join the army as well.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Not an army recruitment ad in the truest sense, but very funny and worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II

It's from a British comedy sketch show called Big Train

I love Big Train (well, the sketches I've been able to see online). Funny, I was just thinking about the one with Simon Pegg as the US general demonstrating their weapons. Thanks for this, I haven't seen it.

[Scream]

I wanted to fight in Operation Desert Storm. I was like 5 years old though. My parents prepared a fake recruitment letter saying I could join, but nothing happened after that - liars.

I later learned that was a good thing because I don't want to die fighting for zog. Modern wars in this time of globalism and individualism are fought for economic reasons only, like the gulf wars, WWII etc. Not just for natural resources but to overthrow superior economic systems, in WWII the national socialist system was vastly superior and unexploitable, "a mark printed for every hour worked" they used to say, that's the only reason the war was fought. That's why Israel is kinda like a national socialist state "never forgive, never forget". It's also why the military is undesirable to join - no-one wants to fight in those shitty wars for money.

I wouldn't mind fighting for a real cause, it's still a possibility if WWIII happens within the next 15 years or so. The wars won't stop until one country dominates completely.

[Darkmoon]

I never had any interest in armed service. I don't play well with others. That I occasionally have to walk with a cane now, and a limp all the time, is the reason I'll never have to.

Of course, it helps that the guy I knew who did enlist was a sniper...who got cracked so hard in groin from recoil he smashed one of his own testicles went AWOL. When he got discharged he went into selling guns to chavs and such and is currently doing...quite a lot of years in prison.

[Gideon Quinn]

Not an army recruitment ad in the truest sense, but very funny and worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAqR-Hs9II

It's from a British comedy sketch show called Big Train

[Mr. Spencer]

is that a invitation?
QUICK GET THE RUSSIANS AND GERMANS! lol

on a more serious note
Most Millitary enlisted men are fairly smart and some probably should be in a science lab developing things,not fighting.
On the other hand,US millitary officers between LT and Major(US army,airforce,navy(whatever there equevelents are to those ranks))
and Captain-Full bird Colonel for the Marine corps are quite the morons
and quite frankly,call a Soldier or a Marine a wimp to his or her face,you wont like the result.
and i though the british had the best navy in the world-oh wait that was the 20th century and earlier wasint it.

as for the orange thing? the coastgaurd wears Orange and dark blue(or is it black)

I wish I was smart enough to go to some country far away from home and die for a political cause. I would go into further detail, but I'll just let Denzel Washington speak on my behalf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5W7eLYVZJk

[adamb1029]

Full metal Jacket wasn't a work of fiction as such it was based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and his time in Vietnam.

These days military fodder are wimps...cry when they have a I-pod taken away from them when they are captured. Want compensation for being dumb enough to be captured anyway.

Can't wear proper boots have to wear trainers.

Get beaten up by a group of kids who sound like a rap band or something.

Never mind the good 'ol U.S of A are strengething their forces in Afghanistan coz they are fed up of us British, they are so not into us they lump us in with the Europeans as an ineffective fighting force. So we will leave, the Americans will shoot a few thousand Afghans and say job done and that will be it. Coz it is an un-winable situation.

Don't worry chaps, a Royal Navy training cruise left Devonport yesterday with the biggest number of ships for a decade 10 in total, though they will be staggered due to the different speeds of the ships...this is a worry me to me...10 ships, one of the largest that have sailed? That is 10 out of the 32 vessels we have.

Okay anyone want to invade this wet chavpit of ours the door is open, we haven't a Navy to do anything about it!

Makes you feel great to be British.

is that a invitation?
QUICK GET THE RUSSIANS AND GERMANS! lol

on a more serious note
Most Millitary enlisted men are fairly smart and some probably should be in a science lab developing things,not fighting.
On the other hand,US millitary officers between LT and Major(US army,airforce,navy(whatever there equevelents are to those ranks))
and Captain-Full bird Colonel for the Marine corps are quite the morons
and quite frankly,call a Soldier or a Marine a wimp to his or her face,you wont like the result.
and i though the british had the best navy in the world-oh wait that was the 20th century and earlier wasint it.

as for the orange thing? the coastgaurd wears Orange and dark blue(or is it black)

[Perry Barclay]

Full metal Jacket wasn't a work of fiction as such it was based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford and his time in Vietnam.

These days military fodder are wimps...cry when they have a I-pod taken away from them when they are captured. Want compensation for being dumb enough to be captured anyway.

Can't wear proper boots have to wear trainers.

Get beaten up by a group of kids who sound like a rap band or something.

Never mind the good 'ol U.S of A are strengething their forces in Afghanistan coz they are fed up of us British, they are so not into us they lump us in with the Europeans as an ineffective fighting force. So we will leave, the Americans will shoot a few thousand Afghans and say job done and that will be it. Coz it is an un-winable situation.

Don't worry chaps, a Royal Navy training cruise left Devonport yesterday with the biggest number of ships for a decade 10 in total, though they will be staggered due to the different speeds of the ships...this is a worry me to me...10 ships, one of the largest that have sailed? That is 10 out of the 32 vessels we have.

Okay anyone want to invade this wet chavpit of ours the door is open, we haven't a Navy to do anything about it!

Makes you feel great to be British.

[GuardhouseMusic]

Thanks to fiction such as Apocalypse Now, Miracle at St. Anna (which was supposed to be one of the "good wars"), Dr. Strangelove, Catch-22 and especially Full Metal Jacket, I have no desire to be associated with any form of military. In terms of my perspective of it, there's a spectrum that goes from seeing soldiers as the perfect representation of either discipline or conditioning. I'm not sure if I'm Gomer Pyle (and look what happened to him-- unless you agree with the theory that he "became" Animal Mother) but I'm definitely not Joker or Cowboy. I wouldn't feel at home, and I thank circumstance I have the choice.

Really I'm a stereotypical hippie in the right time. My father was a draft-dodger and I'm a military steer-clearer (which is a lot easier to do than convince conscription officers you don't know a hammer is what drives a nail in a board).

I always found it amusing that Navy ads from the early to mid 00s had Godsmack in the background. A band featuring a frontman who claims to be Wiccan...Whatever happened to "an it harm none, do what ye will?" It's easy enough to blame the record company for allowing the use of songs, but I never trusted Sully Erna anyway. Fuck him and fuck Dane Cook too.

*rambling over*

[Mr. Spencer]

Orange? Do enlighten me.

[adamb1029]

Better a Misguided Child then a prick in orange.

[Mr. Spencer]

Uncle Sam's Misguided Children?