Hope this is kosher but I can’t think of where else to post. Anyway man I have been seeing more join the military commercials and in particular a marine one is disturbing as fuck sounding. Anyone else seeing this?

EDITED - searching around man just the marine youtube channel and whats been coming out in the last month:

https://www.youtube.com/@marinecorps/videos

this is the one I saw that got me to post today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ot5tToz9BE

  • @regrubEnglish
    10•14 days ago

    Seems like a characteristic/strategy of the military-industrial complex. Make the poor poorer so they become desperate enough to seek military careers to keep feeding the machine.

    • HubertManneOP
      2•14 days ago

      yeah I have seen things like it in the past but considering trump is supposedly feezing things and then his international comments and man they way they show these helicopters flying and helping to achieve us goals or something. what was said was wierd relevant to previous ads I have seen.

  • @jeffwEnglish
    3•14 days ago

    Commercials take months to plan. Doubtful it has anything to do with recent political trends

    • HubertManneOP
      2•14 days ago

      I mean we are talking the military so if anything has something in the pipe you could quickly do a new voiceover on to get going in a pinch it would be them and then of course project 2025 is not the newest and I think some members of the military would be champing at the bit and preparing if they saw an administration coming up that would use them the way they want.

      • @jeffwEnglish
        3•13 days ago

        If you think the military can quickly do anything, I endourage you to actually try to get a contract with them. Once you get your commercial deal inked, go back to them and ask for a change.

        • HubertManneOP
          1•13 days ago

          conversely bombings get going pretty fast and boots on the ground not much later.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•14 days ago

    That’s certainly one of the more aggressive Marine Corps ads I’ve seen in a while.

    From my understanding most of the military branches have been missing their recruitment targets for some time, to the point where it is likely to start impacting their operational capability at some point in the near future. If I remember correctly, the Air Force was the only branch that actually hit their targets. I first noticed an uptick in recruitment advertising about 2ish years ago. Wasn’t too surprising given what we were learning (again) from the Ukraine War.

    This seems more blatantly aimed at those seeking violence or views the use of violence romantically, but that does match the Marine Corps purpose and ethos. They are the hammer of the US international politics. They don’t do subtle.

    Growing up, my mom had a sweater she got from my dad (I think) that read “If it absolutely must be destroyed overnight, U.S. Marines”, a play on the US postal service slogan from around the same time period.