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The United States Navy: A GLOBAL FORCE.... FOR GOOD A TIE fighter flying by would not have been out of place in that commercial.
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I mean yeah the military does do a lot of humanitarian work actually that is true (disaster responders and stuff like that) but still that one was really heavy handed. Oh they nixed it but their reasoning is really funny to me: quote:"We've been phasing out the global force for good tagline over the past year," said Cmdr. Chris Servello, spokesman for the chief of naval personnel. "It's not that we aren't a global force for good, but rather that the tagline alone doesn't capture all of who we really are, as a Navy, that led to the decision to phase it out over time." Does that sound like 'well we do good but you know lol sometimes we gotta do some evil too' to anyone else?
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May 26, 2016 18:51
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Fun fact, the US has never won a war it started.
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May 26, 2016 18:52
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:i hope we lose a war to a race of terrible amazon women and they enslave our dicks hell yea
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May 26, 2016 18:54
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happyhippy posted:Fun fact, the US has never won a war it started. US-Mexico or US-Philippine war?
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Roylicious posted:I mean yeah the military does do a lot of humanitarian work actually that is true (disaster responders and stuff like that) but still that one was really heavy handed. In the Navy's defense, they probably have the lowest incident of collateral damage and are normally the ones doing most of the work for humanitarian issues The Air Force on the other hand... happyhippy posted:Fun fact, the US has never won a war it started. We've won all the wars we started except Vietnam. Then we gently caress around with COIN and leave once we realize no one cares about actually fixing the problem and just leave the locals to do the same thing all over again Also, we totally started the Banana wars, Spanish American war and The Late Night wars and won them very handily
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May 26, 2016 18:58
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happyhippy posted:Fun fact, the US has never won a war it started. Operation Urgent Fury? Iraq v2.0? (which was a crushing military victory and unending clusterfuck of an occupation)
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May 26, 2016 18:59
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Roylicious posted:US-Mexico or US-Philippine war? Mexico/Philippines invaded/declared war first on the US if wikipedia is right. Not exactly the US starting them, they won sure but didn't start them.
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May 26, 2016 18:59
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Those local ads you see (billboards, radio, broadcast TV, ect) are paid for by the recruiter in that area. As long as they meet the quota they get active duty pay + benefits + commission + a job that doesn't involve the normal military butt fingering games.
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May 26, 2016 19:02
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happyhippy posted:Mexico/Philippines invaded/declared war first on the US if wikipedia is right. Go read up on William Randolph Hearst and realize nothing has really changed
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May 26, 2016 19:03
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I've seen quite a few ads in Ukraine. But they have an excuse, what with the war and all. Haven't noticed anywhere else in Europe, though they do stuff like air force days that basically act as PR campaigns. Seeing all the military tech ads in the DC subway for the first time was super surreal though when I visited. Felt like I was in some sort of cyberpunk nightmare where killer robots had their own ad campaigns, except it was completely real.
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May 26, 2016 19:03
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happyhippy posted:Mexico/Philippines invaded/declared war first on the US if wikipedia is right. Mexico-US was us sending troops near the border then claiming Mexico killed them on OUR side of the border which started the war but what the wiki fails to really make evident is that this was a total ploy on the part of the US government (and where the soldiers actually were or even WHO killed them is in question). Abraham Lincoln actually wrote quite a diatribe indicting the US government of this. He openly questioned the purpose of sending troops and also their location at the time of their death. So... nah we started that one. We wanted their territory and manufactured a cassus belli to take it. The US-Philippine war was more tricky - we got handed the Philippines from Spain as part of the treaty ending the US-Spanish war. The locals however were in the middle of fighting for independence and they then said 'well screw you too Americans' but then we pushed their poo poo in but good. So I guess I don't know if you could say we started that one but I dunno that you could say the Philippines started it either.
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May 26, 2016 19:05
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Still lost as you now have Texas.
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May 26, 2016 19:06
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happyhippy posted:Still lost as you now have Texas. Well, yeah touche.
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mobby_6kl posted:I've seen quite a few ads in Ukraine. But they have an excuse, what with the war and all. Haven't noticed anywhere else in Europe, though they do stuff like air force days that basically act as PR campaigns. The ads for US military contractors aren't for most of the public, just potential employees and investors. Occasionally they'll get ad time on a specific TV show because they know some of the DoD guys choosing who wins which contract watches it. They only need to get a few people with each ad, not like McDonalds that looks for astronomically large numbers of people seeing and acting on them
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May 26, 2016 19:07
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Strong. Proud. Today's Canadian Forces. *tricrest logo* edit: Actually the Canadian Forces commercials aren't too bad. They don't go OH CANADA GOT SAVE THE QUEEN OH SAY CAN YOU SEE or anything. They're usually a bunch of people doing cool things with appropriate music and not much talking.
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May 26, 2016 19:08
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They had some commercials on TV here in sweden a couple of years ago, when they were looking for peeps for the officers education. If I remember right it was cool clips of cool macho stuff and then a narrator tellin the audience "No this is not what we do".
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May 26, 2016 19:25
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Top Gun is still the best recruitment ad ever made
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May 26, 2016 19:26
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Booblord Zagats posted:The ads for US military contractors aren't for most of the public, just potential employees and investors. Occasionally they'll get ad time on a specific TV show because they know some of the DoD guys choosing who wins which contract watches it. They only need to get a few people with each ad, not like McDonalds that looks for astronomically large numbers of people seeing and acting on them Oh, certainly, they were clearly targeted st the DC bigwigs who might be travelling to/from work. So maybe this doesn't exactly match the original question bitbInthink it's in that spirit.
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May 26, 2016 19:27
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mobby_6kl posted:Oh, certainly, they were clearly targeted st the DC bigwigs who might be travelling to/from work. So maybe this doesn't exactly match the original question bitbInthink it's in that spirit. Nah, I wasn't critizing your post. I just have people ask sometimes why McD/Boeing is running ads during football games when Im at the bar, so I went to spergo-explain-bot mode automatically
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May 26, 2016 19:30
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The Royal Marines ran with '99.9% need not apply', but then 99.9% didn't.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:even weirder than military commercials are the commercials from military industrial complex megacorps because if they just straight-up paid the media to avoid scrutiny or criticism of their companies that would be unethical, but running millions of dollars in ads is A-OK
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May 26, 2016 20:07
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Airborne Viking posted:Strong. Proud. Today's Canadian Forces. *tricrest logo* they show ppl rescuing boats and stuff instead of crashing helicopters and being killed by US friendly fire
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May 26, 2016 20:10
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paul_soccer10 posted:they show ppl rescuing boats and stuff instead of crashing helicopters and being killed by US friendly fire or sex scandals, and wing commanders raping/murdering subordinates
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May 26, 2016 20:58
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Sheep-Goats posted:Yeah buy they're real fey The s Swedish military seems like a good place to have casual hook ups with handsome men. Confirm/Deny?
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No because they'd be really sad. Look at this cool killing machine we have! Well it doesn't run because we can't afford the parts. Also we can't afford any ammo. But trust us it would be really cool if it worked! NihilismNow fucked around with this message at 21:10 on May 26, 2016 |
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