John VanSickle wrote:

> Darren New wrote:
>> http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ultra_realistic_modern_warfare
> 
> In 1999 or 2000, the US Air Force released one of its first television
> recruiting ads (up to this point, recruiting ads that mentioned the Air
> Force were invariably joint ads that mentioned all four services).  The
> ad consisted of majestic music, played over scenes of various aircraft
> doing various cool things.
> 
> In 2001 or so, a group of servicemen in the Air Force did their own
> version of this.  It featured airmen sweeping hangars, taking out the
> trash, and submitting samples for urinalysis, with the same music
> playing over it.
> 
> The senior leadership was not amused, but everyone whose career did not
> depend on the senior leadership's favor was most surely amused.

:)

Yeah, I remember this kind of stuff in the SADF / SANDF too. On the 
recruiting poster stands the tall, bronzed warrior, aggressively staring 
into the distance, cue the music, appreciative women-folk hungrily staring 
at the fine uniform...

... to being on your knees, bloody cold, sick with the flu and goddamn 
tired, 0145 on a Friday morning, trying to clean the f#@!ing toilet with a 
specially donated toothbrush one of the guys gave up so that your platoon 
can get that weekend pass the Colonel promised to the unit with the cleanest 
quarters.

... or to the joys of the f$%@ing rain washing down the front of your 
uniform while trying to sleep in the field and nature decided that TONIGHT 
was the night to deliver all the rain the country didn't get the past 
decade.

... to just being so tired you fall asleep while marching, so hungry you can 
faint, so scared you're p*ssing yourself, and so dirty it'll take a weak to 
scrape off all the accumulated camo-cream, sweat, grime, dirt and mud - 
after you've burned your uniform as a dead loss, instead of trying to wash 
it.

Still, wouldn't have missed it for the world!
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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