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Guitar Hero?! Where do I sign!?
So, I'm sure I'm going to get flak for this no matter what I say, but I'm going to provide a disclaimer first. I full support the members of our armed forces and this post is in no way meant to attack them but simply gather opinions on a current Army policy.
So anyway, in the courtyard area of SAC right now the army has multiple tents setup. One is a tent here you can receive dog tags with what I presume is your name on them. I saw clipboards and forms so I think at the least they require you to give them some contact info unless the Army is joining the banks in offering credit cards to students.
In another display they have some type of rover. It looks like the mars rovers and I assume its used for some kind of bomb squad. I believe they allow you to "play" with it along an obstacle course in the display but I am not fully sure since I have not gone and talked to them.
In the 3rd tent, they have a huge elaborate stage setup for Guitar Hero.
What do people think of the recruiting methods they are currently using?
Guitar Hero?! Where do I sign!?
I really should go take a picture of the tents. I have to go to a meeting in about 15 minutes and I'll take a few pictures then and I'll upload them after my meetings are over. its a pretty damn elaborate GH setup. Dude I've honestly seen a ton of bands with weaker setups than this.
eh. that's not as bad as the credit card recruiting on campus. everyone makes choices and should realize the course they take. if you sign up for either one you should internalize what is expected of you.
I wanna play with the rover
I agree that the CC company targeting of college students is pretty egregious but I think what makes this so bad for me is that I want to hold the Army to a higher standard than a CC company. I want to think that if they're having trouble recruiting then they'd instead make it more lucrative as opposed to reeling in some dip with guitarhero and some free dog tags.
If it gets good people to serve their country then I don't see a problem with it. Plus the military experience will do a of alot more for personal development than the SAC experience.
That's up to washington not the military.
Thats a good point and I think they're on the right track with the Army Advantage fund that I always hear commercials for on the radio but man this guitar hero tent really leaves a horrible taste in my mouth.
bright lights and elaborate stages seem to wow quite a bit of people.
Won't be long before the fine print in an Army contract locks you in for life. Marketing ploys are all the rage.
What I want to know is where are the Marine Corps Tents!!??
I don't have a problem with military recruiters on college campuses at all.
Are they bothering you?
Our generation are dumbed downed idiots who need shiny things to get their attention.
The marines used to do pull up compe ions in high school but I guess everyone is too fat now
Our generation are dumbed downed idiots who need shiny things to get their attention.
The marines used to do pull up compe ions in high school but I guess everyone is too fat now
They do what they gotta do.
I have come around to the opinion that we need a cons utional ammendment making ALL war, or war-like actions "pay as you go". The govt. MUST raise funds in real time for such adventures so that, at least in some way, ALL of us are going to war together.
As it is, only a small fraction of our country "goes to war".
It would make the politicians think twice about how much we REALLY need to do this.
In my scenario, Afghanistan happens, Iraq probably does not - and if it does, there is much incentive to get it the over with - Afghanistan as well.
Is the use of video games in Armed Forces Recruiting bothering me? Yes it is. Are they bothering me personally? To an extent that any solicitor bothers me I guess. I walked past the tents in between classes and appointments and was hounded each time to play Guitar Hero.
I fundamentally take issue with the use of video games in an attempt to get the youth of the nation to lay their lifes on the line. I want our Army to be a place of honor that does not need to stoop down to these McDonalds level marketing ploys.
You know, we love to give lip service to how great our military is and what an honor it is to serve and yet no one wants to serve. If they did you wouldn't have a need for these huge video game displays and all the BS that is going on out there right now. I really do think its the wrong approach to take to fix recruitment issues. I hate it on so many levels. I mean what happens if you don't win at Guitar Hero? Does the guitar explode in your arms and spray you and your friends with shrapnel? Something as important as serving in our armed forces should not entered into on the basis of such a shallow facade.
I find it hard to believe that anyone would ever join the military based on playing a video game....but then again there are many so called "life like" video games based on military action so I could be wrong.
There was a time not so long ago when those enlisting in the military never even gave a thought of actually having to go to war. Now it is almost a given. The greatest generation understood.
I hope the u.s. services don't partner with the credit card companies during recruitment. I skimmed the post so maybe it was sarcasm.
The government actually did something great a year or so ago and went after these payday advance s that were preying on the servicemen/women.
It's amazing to think that generations before 15 yr olds were lying about their age so they could go to war.
Go to war? That's silly. Doesn't the army just pay for me to wear a uniform, do pushups, and march around?
They did the same thing at my high school. They try to "whoo" you with all the games, free things. It was during lunch in the cafeteria so you couldn't avoid it. The school also is apparently allowed to give them your information because I honestly never filled out any of those forms and I don't know how they would've gotten my phone number otherwise. They constantly call you even if you ignore them. The school sponsored that ASVAB test claiming that it is not an endorsement of the military, but we all knew that is was. Some lady claiming that you could win a free iPod, but you had to fill out a form giving them info. Stuff like that turned me off to the military, not made me want to join it.
Why do you hate freedom?
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