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Why is it the US military's marketing campaign is so much more nefarious than the other 1000+ marketing campaigns that kids and adults alike view every week?

evillepaintball wrote: oh look, another 98 body variant. surprise surprise

haha i was gunna say the same thing

GI JOES SON wrote: edit-thats a of an officer. i would've given them a swift kick in the ass.

And after the rest of them would had finished beating you down you would have realized that the best kind of Leadership is 'Lead by Example' I never asked my guys to do anything that I wouldnt do myself. Where it was picking up trash with them to scrubbing the common area bathrooms. You be surpriced how much you can get done with Team Work and Respect.

There are bad apples in everybunch. Even the Corps we had an NCO kill a Lance Corpoal that was having his child to hide a sexual assault charge. While we can concentrate in a few bad apples I can find everyday Thousands of exaples of bravery and dedication to one's country and acts of selflesness.

These Virtues are not only common to men in the Armed Forces but a Human trait that I wish was exercized more often.

Evil Elvis wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: FlimFlam wrote: Why is it the US military's marketing campaign is so much more nefarious than the other 1000+ marketing campaigns that kids and adults alike view every week? You don't get shot at for buying into a Mountain Dew commercial? No but lead kids to belive that Drinking MtDew makes them Extreme Sportsmen that they can do Extreme Jumps on BMX bikes. Falling off a Halfpipe and getting hit a paintball ... I'll take the paintball hit.

I don't know how to put it in any different kind of perspective/english for you.


Marketing:
Mountain= Extreme Sports
Army= Supreme Action pumped up safety

Action:
Mountain Dew= Soda
Army= Getting shot at
Paintball= Paintball?


You can't take the Marketing idea from Mountain Dew, and then compare it to the actual action of the Army vs Paintball.

Evil Elvis wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: I don't know how to put it in any different kind of perspective/english for you.Marketing:Mountain= Extreme SportsArmy= Supreme Action pumped up safetyAction:Mountain Dew= SodaArmy= Getting shot atPaintball= Paintball?You can't take the Marketing idea from Mountain Dew, and then compare it to the actual action of the Army vs Paintball. I understand but the Armed Forces isnt all "Getting Shot at" I dont know if you know but we have an all Volunteer Armed forces. when you Enlist you get to choose the MOS Military Occupation Field that you want. there is no current Draft.

Snake got stationed at a non-deployable position.  Choosing an MOS is a joke now, as they can do whatever they want after you sign your papers.

Evil Elvis wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: Snake got stationed at a non-deployable position.  Choosing an MOS is a joke now, as they can do whatever they want after you sign your papers. Actually no they can't. only if you go on an 'Open' contract. Please come back when you have some facts to back up what your saying. The only thing they have control for what duty station you have and there are Hundreds of Thousands Servive men that are in Non Deployable Positions or deployed in rear garrison areas.

You know what, you're right. I pulled that out of my ass. I never went and talked to recruiters in high school, or took JROTC for 4 years.  Damn you're insightful.

Evil Elvis wrote: GI JOES SON wrote: edit-thats a of an officer. i would've given them a swift kick in the ass. And after the rest of them would had finished beating you down you would have realized that the best kind of Leadership is 'Lead by Example' I never asked my guys to do anything that I wouldnt do myself. Where it was picking up trash with them to scrubbing the common area bathrooms. You be surpriced how much you can get done with Team Work and Respect. There are bad apples in everybunch. Even the Corps we had an NCO kill a Lance Corpoal that was having his child to hide a sexual assault charge. While we can concentrate in a few bad apples I can find everyday Thousands of exaples of bravery and dedication to one's country and acts of selflesness. These Virtues are not only common to men in the Armed Forces but a Human trait that I wish was exercized more often.

i agree with lead by example, but if your doing it and they still refuse, that's when you have to get tougher about it. i dont necessarily mean beat the crap out of them, or hit them. swift kick in the ass isn't exactly the action to take, i'll agree i was wrong on that. but if your running a platoon and one squad doesn't want to do jack, and i have to delegate the work to the other squads, those troops in the remaining 3 squads are going to be pretty PO'd. as for the useless bunch, i guess they would have to just get a negative report and sleep with one eye open in the barracks

FlimFlam wrote: usafpilot07 wrote: I don't know how to put it in any different kind of perspective/english for you. Marketing: Mountain= Extreme Sports Army= Supreme Action pumped up safety Action: Mountain Dew= Soda Army= Getting shot at Paintball= Paintball? You can't take the Marketing idea from Mountain Dew, and then compare it to the actual action of the Army vs Paintball. Well, motor vehicles kill a lot people every year too.  We should probably stop advertising them as well...

Well there's a perfect correlation.

FlimFlam wrote: Well, motor vehicles kill a lot people every year too.  We should probably stop advertising them as well...

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well at least its better that the triumph