Why Can't American Armed Forces recruitment ads be like this?

[Lonestar]

Canadian Forces Recruitment video


I wonder how many shots they had to take in order to get a video of those Helos staying airborne that long.

[Asher]

I was actually surprised how high quality they were.

[KrazyHorse]

Almost makes me wish I'd joined back when I was thinking about it (2002)

[KrazyHorse]

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[Dis]

really cool.

I'm joining the Canadian military tomorrow.

They even made the navy look almost exiting (though who knew the Canadians had a navy ). And having been in the navy, trust me, mopping the deck is not that fun.

[Asher]

There's a link to a Canadian raid on the taliban right under this on Youtube. Also cool

[KrazyHorse]

Our navy is different than your navy. First off, it's tiny. Secondly, all the ships are small ships. We don't have anything larger than an undersized destroyer (basically a fancy frigate), so the duty onboard is probably a lot different than the duty onboard a huge-ass carrier

[Dis]

I'm sure they still swab the decks.

[KrazyHorse]

Prolly. But they're also probably expected to be more generalists than are the crew of a carrier.

When you've got 3000 crew aboard you can afford to have specialists of all kinds. When you've got 60 or 80 it's a lot different.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Prolly. But they're also probably expected to be more generalists than are the crew of a carrier.

When you've got 3000 crew aboard you can afford to have specialists of all kinds. When you've got 60 or 80 it's a lot different.

....I think they have moe than 60 or 80.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

I saw this from the middle walking into a movie theatre before the previews started. I was really surprised when the CF logo came up. Its a cool advertisement. More in line with the US Army ads, but alot less boring and corny.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lonestar


....I think they have moe than 60 or 80.

Shows what I know. Our biggest ships apparently are more like 240 or 280

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Shows what I know. Our biggest ships apparently are more like 240 or 280

Yeah, I thought your guesstimate was a bit on the small side. (Your frigates are approximately the size of an USN OHP frigate, so I expected the crew sizes to be close to each other in numbers)

[notyoueither]

I was wondering what people thought about these. They came out about the same time there was a thread about the new US military advertising.

[KrazyHorse]

The US military advertisements suck. It's a guy blathering about "army strong".