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Check out the newest YouTube video from the Navy -- it's a recruiting video for the Navy Reserves:
posted by Bubblehead at 10:38 PM
I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)
5 Comments:
Interesting.
Especially at a time when we are going to send 1000 senior officers to the IRR in the next couple of weeks and are conducting a drawdown...
5/29/2008 6:30 AM
Damn shame that it's not on YouTube as well, but SNL did a great spoof on the Navy's ads way back when in the "It's not just a job...it's an adventure" days.
Transcript: The Navy Adventure
[ open on Navy port ]
Announcer: "Port of call, *Bayonne*, New Jersey."
[ Navy men are seen doing laundry ]
The Navy Adventure.
[ as background music plays, scenes show navy workers performing various activities: mopping a floor, peeling potatoes, cooking and serving cafeteria food, scrubbing toilets, chipping paint off of an old ship wall, fastening chains on a ship, mopping the ship, tarring a ship floor, and sitting in a room watching TV ]
"The Navy. See your local recruiter or call toll free."
[ final image shows phone number 311-555-5000 against a man with a mop and bucket - the motto is also shown ]
"It's not just a job, it's $96.78 a week."
5/29/2008 12:58 PM
Wow - they could also use this video for training at YN A-school :)
5/29/2008 2:23 PM
It's been almost twenty years now - when do I get to fly that jet???
5/29/2008 8:44 PM
I remember getting the brochure in the mail that said something along the lines of "When was the last time you flew Mach 1? When was the last time you took control of a nuclear submarine? When was the last time... etc." I read it out loud, and my roommate yawned and said, "Last week, so shut up."
A different roommate had a letter forwarded to him on the ship from Selective Service (draft registration), who said he faced possible prosecution for failing to update his address with them.
A buddy of ours (Zippy) always paraphrased the old ads as "It's not just a job; it's an indenture."
6/10/2008 12:26 PM
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