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Yeah....the "middle the "moderate" position....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...101295_pf.html
Army Debuts New Slogan In Recruiting Commercials
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 22, 2006; A19
The Army, facing another tough recruiting season, launched a $200 million-a-year advertising campaign this month and unveiled a new slogan: "Army Strong."
The campaign's core message is that the Army builds not only physical but also mental and emotional strength in recruits, bonding them into a powerful, close-knit team.
"There's strong, and then there's Army strong," a deep male voice intones as martial music rises from a brass band in the background.
The television ads, launched nationwide for Veterans Day along with Internet placements and other outreach, omit all but the most fleeting images related to the all-volunteer Army's biggest endeavor ever: the war in Iraq.
The main 30- and 60-second ads show soldiers jogging in formation, scaling a rope obstacle course and leaping out of a helicopter -- all take place in what appear to be familiar, grassy, domestic settings. The only brief glimpse of what could possibly be Iraq is of a group of soldiers hastily raising a tent -- although, unlike others in the ad, these soldiers wear no helmets or body armor.
There are obvious reasons the Army might not want to underscore to potential recruits, and their parents, that signing up these days almost inevitably means deployment to combat zones in Afghanistan or Iraq, where the majority of the more than 2,850 killed and 21,000 wounded have been soldiers.
The Army missed its fiscal 2005 recruiting target by more than 6,000 soldiers but rebounded last year with the aid of thousands of added recruiters, a doubling of the maximum enlistment bonus to $40,000 and some eased standards. The Army begins fiscal 2007 with another hefty target of 80,000 recruits and only about 15 percent already in the pipeline -- compared with a goal of 25 to 30 percent.
Army officials acknowledge that parents and other influential adults are less likely to recommend military service today because of the ongoing conflicts, and surveys have shown that the wars have made some young people more wary of enlisting.....
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Originally Posted by powerclown
That's ridiculous. You post the same way in every political thread, regardless who started it.
You can control your tone. You don't want to.
Everyone here seems to be up to date on what is going on.
They are exposed to the same current events as you.
They don't rant and rave like you do.
They could, but they don't.
They could go nuts like you do, but they don't.
I can tell they're pissed too, but they control themselves.....
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There will come a point when they stop muting their response, powerclown.
The folks you describe, the ones with all of the self control....the 90 percent of American adults who permitted themselves into being duped into supporting the invasion of Iraq, and before that, the 70 percent who supported the Reagan "revolution", trickle down economics, and the "Contract" with America. I missed supporting all of that.....how have most Americans benefited from all of that "self control", powerclown.....they enabled all of these things that, in hindsight, were against their own political self interests......sheep don't make much noise, either.