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'Army of One' Ad Campaign Dropped
Newsmax.com ^ | December 8, 2005 | Newsmax.com

Posted on 12/08/2005 3:52:44 AM PST by armydawg1

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To: Always Right

U.S. Army: Almost The Marines.

Think they'll buy it?


41 posted on 12/08/2005 4:50:57 AM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: JoeSixPack1

you got my vote, bro...


42 posted on 12/08/2005 4:51:01 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: PLMerite

That's a great reason to join.


43 posted on 12/08/2005 4:51:17 AM PST by em2vn
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To: usmcobra
U.S. Army: Almost The Marines. Think they'll buy it?

Yeah, they will be all over that.

44 posted on 12/08/2005 4:52:57 AM PST by Always Right
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To: usmcobra
or..

Wanna pound sand?

45 posted on 12/08/2005 4:52:58 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: armydawg1

When I was overseas, the question was: "If this is an army of one, can I go home now?"


46 posted on 12/08/2005 4:55:38 AM PST by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: airborne

Save the loot, bring on the draft.


47 posted on 12/08/2005 4:57:21 AM PST by cynicom
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To: bobjam

Democrats New Slogan = Army of NONE


48 posted on 12/08/2005 4:58:39 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion it will give it to you.)
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To: ken5050

We're the Army, and the Marines stole all our cool looking uniforms and we got stuck with this stupid french beanie.


49 posted on 12/08/2005 4:59:15 AM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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To: usmcobra
First off, I'm a former Marine myself. But we must remember that the Marines turned down Audie Murphy when he tried to join.

L

50 posted on 12/08/2005 4:59:55 AM PST by Lurker ("Son, there's only two things you need in this world; love and a .45.")
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To: armydawg1

"Hurry up and wait."


51 posted on 12/08/2005 5:01:07 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: x1stcav

The "Rose Garden" campaign was an early to mid 70's campaign for the Marine Corps not the Army. I am a former Marine Corps recruiter and I started collecting old ad posters while on the street. The Rose Garden poster hung in a frame in my office and now hangs in a frame in my new civilian office. People always get a kick out of it.

The Marine Corps has always used the intangible advertising (i.e. Duty,Honor, Country, Corps) there has never been a Marine Corps ad campaign that focused on tangibles like college money. It has always been about being one of "The Few, The Proud, The Marines.

Semper Fidelis


52 posted on 12/08/2005 5:01:25 AM PST by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: armydawg1

"The most powerful search engine on the planet... The U.S. Navy!"


53 posted on 12/08/2005 5:01:42 AM PST by YouPosting2Me
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To: Fierce Allegiance

It was considered one of the most recognizeable tag lines in history. They never should have dropped it.


54 posted on 12/08/2005 5:01:52 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: x1stcav

What?

Marine ad campaigns looked like Dungeons & Dragons commericals. Mythical figures fighting mythical figures.

A week after I received my jump wings, my Airborne buddies and I were in a bar with a bunch of marines and a current Army ad showing Airborne troops came on. We were screaming and dumping beers all over those pussies.


55 posted on 12/08/2005 5:03:40 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: marine86297

So true. You guys always had the best recruiting themes.

All the ad firm needs to post is "join the military and you don't have to pay taxes"


56 posted on 12/08/2005 5:04:50 AM PST by Liberfighter (A half truth is a whole lie)
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To: A.A. Cunningham
Shinseki's folly. Could that fetching beret be next? How about coed boot camp? You people are indeed slow but eventually you do get the message.

I never could figure out what possessed Shinseki to cheapen the Ranger beret by handing it out to every swinging anatomical appendage who survived Basic and AIT.

57 posted on 12/08/2005 5:09:26 AM PST by ABG(anybody but Gore) (This tagline is under remodeling, thank you for your patience...)
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To: SJSAMPLE

Hilarious.

Of course you are about to incur chin music from every jarhead on this site starting, no doubt, with kellyinla.


58 posted on 12/08/2005 5:09:49 AM PST by x1stcav (Murtha is a surrender monkey)
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To: usmcobra

Marines: The Navy keeps us around because sheep would be too obvious.


59 posted on 12/08/2005 5:12:39 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: Lurker

How about.....

U.S. Army: We're not your great grandpa's doughboys any more.

(Complete with a fully armed female soldier)


60 posted on 12/08/2005 5:14:46 AM PST by usmcobra (30 years since I first celebrated The Marine Corps Birthday as a Marine)
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