Lighten up people. I joined the Marines because I knew I would be drafted and I liked the movie Sands of Iwo Jima. Don't give me the old crap about Duke Wayne I know. Advertising works and movies are part of it. Even though the Vietnam Vet unfairly became the psycho anti-hero in the movies later on the Marines still made their quota. If the Pentagon thinks they can get more volunteers by pretending they are "meals on wheels" and a global force to save the whales and other creatures hey who am I to get in their way? I earned the right to laugh at it though. Note the most vitriolic insults to the Military come from a poster who disrespects the American Flag.
I think the recent USMC TV commercial is intended to recruit a more diverse member. As stated, when the Marines are Looking for a Few Good Men, they usually get them. They are getting them mainly in the form of white men and they have been ordered from above to get more minorities. My son is going through TBS right now and the number of non-whites is very small. The number of blacks and others that go Infantry is even smaller. None of the branches are having trouble right now though. The unemployment rate in the military recruit demographic is over 20 percent.
Do not forget. The Marines have found their few good men.
Navy Corpsmen
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