National Guard recruiters are getting desperate....

[Chico Man]

Have a look at the setup they had at the local town fair this evening...



They were playing really loud techo music and for a while a few soldiers were standing on the roof of this pimped out patriotic hum-vee dancing like strippers.

Notice the speakers behind the back seat...

The moment I saw it, I knew I had to take a pic and post it on DU! Enjoy..

[DS1]

1. Who are they trying to fool?

:eyes:

[mike_c]

2. kicked and recommended....

People need to see this.

[yorkiemommie1]

3. just get out the big butterfly nets, i say

geez, not that i own a butterfly net company or anything, but really, i bet they'd rather just kidnap people.
i posted about our local recruiting problems over in the california forum.

[The Jacobin]

4. It is probably as well armored as those in Iraq.

Mention that to the dancer.

[karlrschneider]

5. I recall an Iraq picture from the early "war"..."two weeks a year my ass"

or something like that. I thought I had it saved on the puter but can't seem to find it now. :grr:

[The Jacobin]

9. I remember it in a Doonesbury Cartoon

:patriot:

[karlrschneider]

25. I do too, but I know for sure I saw a real one...surely where Garry got

the idea...

[soup]

40. Finally....

Thought I had it, too, but can't find it. It's probably on the old computer.

Here it is as a 'stand alone':

source: (cut and paste into address bar and remove the space before the jpg to view)
http://www.dogtulosba.com/blog/One_weekend-thumb. jpg

or

source:
http://www.dogtulosba.com/archives/cat_uncle_sam_aint_released_me_yet_us_army.html
Scroll WAY down to
Wednesday 19 Nov 2003

[Lars39]

47. Was it this one?

[applegrove]

6. Picture doesn't render. That is sad. I'm sure those recruiters will do

anything not to have to go back. What does the christian coalition think of this?

[libnnc]

7. Holy Moses

...that's pretty pathetic. Dancing on top of a pimped out humvee?

good lord, there aren't words.

[jojo54]

8. If that were me, I'd be sssooooo embarrassed!!!

"Here's your orders, soldier. Go out there with your tricked up Humvee, play that loud music the kids like and make yourself look like a real hip guy. That'll bring 'em in".

[Bluebear]

10. WOW! Cool humvee dude! Is that what I get to drive in Iraq?

Riiiiiiiiiiight.

[Mabus]

18. "Not only that, you get to take it home!"

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

11. This picture is beyond sad. How far from a draft could we be.

What's next, having the soldier dressed in a red, white, and blue
G-string.

[krkaufman]

43. Promises of 70 virgins on enlistment. n/t

[Tux]

46. Sounds bad

But worked for Bin Laden. Bush just needs to have the New Trinity (Falwell, Robertson, Dobson) to say that anyone who is fundie and dies in Iraq will guarantee their family's and/or neighborhood's salvation...loads of fundies would sign up.

[quisp]

12. Who cares if it's armored or not???

If they're fighting the terraists with bling like that I'm signing up tomorrow! Do you think I get to keep my hummer after I get my legs blown off?

[pointblank]

34. You might get to keep a piece of it

...that is, a piece of shrapnel from it embedded in your body for the rest of your life.

That picture is pathetic and disturbing at the same time.

Eisenhower and Patton are rolling over in their graves.


* ed for sp.

[nookiemonster]

13. Yo, yo, yo!!

Any morans in the house!!

That means you FReep.

Get your butt over there.

[Bluebear]

15. Paging Cory Bray! Paging Cory Bray! Mr. Bray, please see this booth

http://www.paulvolle.com/corybray.html

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050711&s=blumenthal

[nookiemonster]

20. Wow!

There really is no cure for stupid, is there?

:banghead:

[Bigmack]

14. Those speakers....

.. do you think they'd stop IED's?

Any kid that would fall for that shit ... well... Nature Just Culling the Herd!

[Javaman]

16. How embarrassing. This is what moron* has turned our military into.

Colossal failure*

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Is he with Team America World Police?

[pointblank]

36. LOL

Holy shit, that is hilarious!!

Amerikka, FUCK YEA!!

[cliss]

19. That's not all.....

a letter arrived to my teenage son yesterday. It was from the Oregon National Guard. My son was gone, so my other son and I opened it up (I know, I know!!!). We took a peek.

It was a check made out to my son. It was for $597.00 for signing up for the Guard.

My other son couldn't believe it. He threw the letter down, disgusted. He said, "Is that all my life is worth to them?????? Going to Iraq and get killed.....for that?

So you see, kids aren't dumb.

Thank you for posting, Chico. I'm going to show this to the teenager who missed out on all the fun.

[Old and In the Way]

22. I had a Navy recruiter call for my daughter last week.

I told him, "Thanks for your service sir, but there is no way in hell I will let my daughter fight for Exxon's bottom line. This war inIraq is a moral and ethical failure on the part of this administration. No way will I offer up my daughter to George (AWOL) Bush and Dick (5 Deferments) Cheney." He laughed and said "that seems to be a recurring theme I'm hearing".

I wondered afterwards, though....why the Navy? Are they short on recruits? I wonder if there is a bait and switch tactic going on within the services?

[cliss]

24. That's awesome, Old.

You are very brave. When they start calling for my kids (I've got 3 teenage boys), I'll tell them exactly what you said.

[Garbo 2004]

29. Some Navy and Air Force folks are doing duty on the ground in Iraq in

nontraditional roles for their branches of service. For example, this article: http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/04/26/unready_for_combat?mode=PF

[StaggerLee]

39. Isn't that the Blue to Green program

That I've heard discussed here on DU?

Part of the backdoor draft if you ask me...

:(

[JohnnyBoots]

32. At least the recruiter took it in stride and didn't flip out, wonder

if he is regretting his desicion.

[Nordmadr]

35. The Navy recruiter was still able ot have a bit of

a laugh about it because he hasn't got his ass to the fire from his superiors to find recruits. They are flush with them as far as I can tell, far better than Army or Marines.

Olaf

[Inland]

45. And yet, for so many, $597 is real money. nt

[noamnety]

21. We need the video

of him dancing like a stripper up there. I can't think of anything more humiliating.

*shake your combat booties*

[Mabus]

23. What state/town? n/t

[Chico Man]

41. Cumberland, RI

Cumberlandfest is the annual fair.. never noticed a National Guard presence in the past.

[Mabus]

42. Thanks

I sent the link to several friends of mine and they were shocked and/or laughing hysterically. We just had our county fair (Douglas County, Kansas) and I was scheduled as a floating backup for the Dem booth but wasn't called. I've got to call someone who went to the fair and find out if the NG did anything like that here. (Although I'm sure if they did anything like that, especially here in THE Blue County of Kansas, it would be all over the place.

BTW, Kansas, last I heard, had a low compliance rate (re: registration of 18 year olds) so this state seems ripe for crap like that.

:hi:

[Biased Liberal Media]

26. I've noticed the commercials have been on high rotation lately

on MTV and other cable channels for the Army.

But this?? Wow.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. "C'mere, kids... Want some CANDY?"

Creepy as all get-out, if you ask me.

[Biased Liberal Media]

28. No kidding

I hope my daughter is not sucked into that when she gets older. Frankly, I hope she doesn't have to see what the nation is going through when she gets older (she's 5).

[rman]

30. "war is a rave party"

pretty close to "war is peace"

[krkaufman]

44. Great picture... "Somebody lied"

It avoids the auto-defense mechanism of pro-Bushies and may open their minds to *somebody* having lied... which eventually could lead them to the correct conclusion.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

31. Where the hell was this?

Our recruiters are going to have to play catch-up
Cuz on Aug 25 at Old Silver Beach on Cape Cod
they are only gonna be handing out free beach
balls and frisbees.

BTW OUR tax dollars paid for that?
FUCKERS

[Hubert Flottz]

33. A war based on a pack of lies is a hard sell!

Even the FReeper types know the truth about the trumped up reasons to invade Iraq! Send Bush and Cheney to Iraq, they broke it!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

37. wow, National Gaurd wants you! (to learn to pimp rides!)

this is just foolish.

[Ganja Ninja]

38. We're probably spending more on marketing and advertising ...

the military than we're spending on health care for wounded vets.:eyes: