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June 21st, 2007

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Join the Army, Get Laid

The Danger Room notes that the ad by the British Armoured Infantry makes it the third television recruitment ad discovered to link military service with getting nookie. Granted, the Brits are comparatively a lot more subtle than the Russians and Ukrainians. See below for the videos.

British Armoured Infantry


Russian Army


Ukrainian Army


Of course, this is probably a better way to get the type of people you want involved in the front lines of national defense than Japan’s Seaman Ship.

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Rommel
June 21, 2007
12:48 pm
If joining the Russian army gets me girls like that, count me in.
See you in Chechnya!
a517dogg
June 21, 2007
1:00 pm
Curse you, DoD, for blocking Youtube!
James
June 21, 2007
1:08 pm
Did the Ukranians shoot their commercial in a different language and then dub it over in their own?
Dan tdaxp
June 21, 2007
2:03 pm
The British ad was tasteful. The Russian ad was nearly so, plus it ends with the cool double-headed eagle. Ukraine apparently is the hilarious, fun-time former soviet republic.

PS: Didn't we fight a war to stop this?
The Marmot’s Hole » Uniforms=Chicks
June 21, 2007
2:40 pm
[...] Nothing gets you laid like an APC. [Coming Anarchy] Just ask the Ukrainians. [...]
alec
June 21, 2007
3:33 pm
Join the Russian Army and spend a year of your life being brutalized by your superiors. Plus, I hear coerced fellatio is a marketable skill.

And isn't military service compulsory in Russia anyhow?
moorethanthis
June 21, 2007
3:50 pm
On a related note, I thought you might enjoy this story about an Israeli Foreign Ministry attempt to improve the image of their country.
Keep Reaching For The Golden Ring America | Prose Before Hos
June 21, 2007
4:21 pm
[...] the international blogosphere, CA has a post with commercial from different countries on military recruitment. The Russian one forgot to mention the wonders of officer-inflicted hazing. Publius has a post on [...]
von Kaufman-Turkestansky
June 21, 2007
6:50 pm
From Global Security.org:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/army-intro.htm ..
"In November 2002 Russian defense minister Sergei B. Ivanov, outlined a package of military reforms. By 2007 soldiers, paratroopers and marines in the most combat-ready units — 10 divisions, 7 brigades and 13 regiments — would all be professionals. Under earlier plans supported by the uniformed leadership, the transition to a contracted, rather than conscripted force would not begin in earnest until 2011. "

I don't know how up to date this is, and how many are contract. But the point of the ad is clear... volunteer for the contract army, and you'll be paid enough to be popular with the girls and buy rounds for everyone when you're on leave...
Chief Wiggum
June 21, 2007
10:47 pm
The National Lampoon "website":http://www.nationallampoon.com/ has an ad for a moving coming out this summer called:

72 Virgins- How Far Would You Go To Get Laid?

The plot? "Two idiot college students unwittingly join Al Qaeda in order to get the 72 virgins promised to terrorists when they die."

Sounds good to me!
Chief Wiggum
June 21, 2007
10:52 pm
Will Borat and his sister make a recruiting movie for Kazakhstan?
tdaxp
June 22, 2007
1:20 am
Small but productive adventures...

I woke up at 6 and walked around campus. I saw a pair of ducks in a parking lot, which was quite the sight. Then blogging: the Nifong post and the Rails adventure. I filled out an application for advanced degree in the administration building, and p...
Curzon
June 22, 2007
2:45 am
Alec, you think that's bad, "check this out:":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6356707.stm

Private Andrei Sychev was forced to squat for several hours by fellow soldiers and then tied to a chair and brutally beaten up last year. As a result he developed gangrene in his legs and genitals, which had to be amputated.


But don't worry, the US won the Cold War after all:

Now permanently disabled, Pte Sychev has just announced that he is to write a book about his ordeal.


An Oprah bestseller in the making.
Dram_man
June 22, 2007
4:47 am
You know just when you think spoof eastern european ads are only spoofs, a real one comes along and shows you the best parody is inadvertent self-parody.

On a second point, the Ukrainians could be on to something here. Remember the hookers greeting the soldiers and tanks during the Thai coup last year?
von Kaufman-Turkestansky
June 22, 2007
1:24 pm
Curzon, dedovschina in the Russian army is bad, and some reports have talked about 1000 non-combat related deaths per year - pretty heavy. But brutal hazing exists in other armies. I know it has happened in the Canadian forces. Maybe not so often, but Canada didn't have an empire collapse around it, so even some hazing in the military is not acceptable to me. I also noted this:
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,139727,00.html ..
The Florida Masochist » Blog Archive » Recruitment Videos Open Trackbacks
June 22, 2007
4:23 pm
[...] The Ukranian and British Military use an interesting tactic to recruit future soldiers. As Robert Koehler says, nothing gets you laid like an APV. Videos courtesy of Coming Anarchy. [...]
nykrindc
June 23, 2007
3:09 am
In keeping with the theme of this post, I just wanted to point you to this. I think Israel bests all three videos above.
strategist
June 23, 2007
9:20 am
The New Zealand Air Force recently ran a recruiting ad showing a farmer sticking his hand up a cow's bum and saying to his son, "The air force? What sort of a job is that?"

Still, probably an improvement on an army recruiting ad I remember from the late '70s, which showed light infantrymen fighting though a forest to the music 'Everybody was kung fu fighting'...
Lexington Green
June 23, 2007
3:27 pm
Women like soldiers, or men wouldn't want to be soldiers.

The most effective thing the old anti-war movement did during Vietnam was make soldiers and uniforms objects of ridicule by young women. Those images were devastating.

I wonder if the young men of Russia and Ukraine are so unsophisticated that they will fall for those ads.

The British ad seemed nicely balanced, as well as having good production values.