"Something this fast" Army TV Commercial

[AggieDave 6]

Have you seen that TV commercial for the US Army about the guy that is starting an A&P job on rotor wing A/C in the civilian world and he's asked "have you ever worked on anything this fast before?"

Am I the only one that wished he would have answered "yeah, your mom!"




As a side note, why doesn't the Navy commercials have any shots of people scraping crap off the outside of the hull and painting? How many people pilot a sub in the Navy? Maybe 100 enlisted men total? Then again, who would want to join if those were the commercials, huh?

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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Should I tell the tale of my father the Iwo Jima and Napels Harbor

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As a side note, why doesn't the Navy commercials have any shots of people scraping crap off the outside of the hull and painting? How many people pilot a sub in the Navy? Maybe 100 enlisted men total? Then again, who would want to join if those were the commercials, huh?

...same reason they don't show army soldiers doing KP, puking after a run, and buffing floors... That sucked ASS.

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Should I tell the tale of my father the Iwo Jima and Napels Harbor

Sure, I bet its really cool!

I love the tradition of oral-history being passed on. Then again, I was a history major @ TAMU, I just really enjoy history.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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My father was a deck ape he was in Napoli in the year 1974 he never said what month it was.

One day he was painting the hull of the ship. Hanging out in his carog net when he fell into the water.
Aparently the water in Napoli was really nasty. He said that it was a combination of all the crap in the water and the lead coating the coveralls that kept him afloat and mostly dry. After he was rescued from the water he proceeded to sick bay where he was given a shot of gamaglobulin. He reports if you ever get that shot you will feel really good for a week, but I digress.

While my father was in sick bay his "friends" decided to do him a favor. The decided to start cutting down the cargo net for him. The cut every loop that was tied to the ship.

All save for the one on the very bottom. Now I am told that when you cut a cargo net from the hull of a ship you want to start at the bottom and work your way up. My father takes the knife that one of these "friends" offers up and proceeds to climb down to the bottom of the cargo net.

He gets to the point where he needs to cut, wraps his one fore arm in the net, as well as both legs. As he cuts the last loop tieing the cargo net to the hull of the Iwo Jima the net swung a good thirty feet out, or so he says. Well at least History didn't repeat itself. He just had a bitch of a time climbing up the cargo net to get back on the deck.

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HA!

That's great. With friends like that who needs to have enemies?

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

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I think that the Navy's "accelerate your life" ads are sort of odd. It just sounds like they're saying that your life will be over a lot faster if you join the Navy.