New ads pitch Marine Corps' kinder, gentler side

Associated Press ^ | March 8, 2012 | PAULINE JELINEK

[Free ThinkerNY]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Marines are highlighting a kinder, gentler side in a new ad campaign.

Known more for its war-fighting skills, the Marine Corps is launching new ads about its humanitarian missions and help with other crises around the world.

[brownsfan]

More of the ongoing effort by the left to neuter our military.

And they’re winning.

[Venturer]

Oh !!!! Geez.

Just waht we need a kindler , gentler , Marine Corps.

Like the a-wipe fruit Sgt that wrapped his legs around his boyfriend when he came home.

We are done for if we don’t get the clown out of the White House.

[SoFloFreeper]

Gay outreach has been huge with the Marines. Obama is ruining America.

[Borax Queen]

The world elites are moving us to one-world currency and one world everything. The Navy has been airing their “globalist force for good” commercials for awhile now. No one seems concerned the way I am.

[ryan71]

I expect this crap from Obama and the democrats but generals and admirals are willfully playing along.

THAT'S f’ed up.

[G Larry]

The U. S. Marines are NOT the Peace Corps!!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is what I thought the Peace Corps was for! Why waste our mean Marines on it???

[Stormdog]

“Gay outreach...”

Isn’t that what a queer does in the showers?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yup. They are the War Corps and that is not pronounced corpse!

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Fabulous New Marine Corps.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Next thing you know they’ll be wearing Mantyhose and brosiery at the next inspection and in combat!

It’s all part and parcel of that new Meals-On-Wheels, feel good, be nice, emasculated, metrosexualized military that the Left has wanted for so long!

[PGR88]

[HiTech RedNeck]

A glorified World Police. Oh joy.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The Fabulous New Marine Corps. - Now with more flair and sparkle!

And the military base they love to visit most? Fort Dix!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Which is A-OK for any normal guys, but let one start showing horniness at the others and, well let’s say the results are very normal.

[oh8eleven]

Marine Corps research found that today's young people are interested in helping other people.
So the campaign aims to convince the generation called millennials that joining the military is one way to do that.
Yeah, just wait until they hit Parris Island.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even their jets emit glitter!

[Responsibility2nd]

Kinder Gentler Marines

 

 

 

Yeah Right.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Don’t think that is a father and son either.

[Jack Hydrazine]

When they aren’t flaming!!!

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL!

[Argus]

For some reason I’m reminded of Caligula forcing his legionaires to gather seashells and issuing homoerotic passwords to the Praetorian Guard.

[DoughtyOne]

I obviously care that the Marines do in total, but my biggest care is how they treat their families when they come home alive. Outside of basic human rights, that’s where my concerns end when they’re in the field of combat.

If there wasn’t trouble they wouldn’t be there. Stop causing trouble, and forget about them showing up. Forget about them doing something you don’t like.

[The Shrew]

They are the War Corps and that is not pronounced corpse!

The Marine Corps creates corpses for our nation's enemies. Lots and lots of corpses. It would be an alternate reality if our nation's enemies consisted ONLY of liberal college students and professors because then the mere threat of real violence would cow them into abject submission. But, we don't live in an alternate reality.

The United States reality today is that we face the most evangelical religion and political system in the world with the fastest demographic growth rate that is sworn to our utter destruction, defeat, humiliation and servitude. Once our military can no longer protect us we will be bullied not just into silence but into dhimmitude. We will be converted by the sword.

Not me!

Semper Fi,

TS

[HiTech RedNeck]

When one says he is watching your six, better take note of what his twelve is up to.

[DoughtyOne]

Agreed!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Most Marines treat their families decently and are not the mad nutcases that grab headlines. Or do you mean to get at something else.

[FatherofFive]

The U. S. Marines are NOT the Peace Corps!!!

The marines kill people and break things. That is their mission.

[Stormdog]

Ahhh, the new recruiting poster..

Seriously, somewhere in this great country my DI is rolling over in his grave.

[snowtigger]

They want to help people? Then become the best @#$%^$# fighting force in the world. Love everyone, but be prepared to KILL them the second they show any animosity.
They can help us defend this country. THAT is what they are for. Kill people and break things.
If you want to be a candy-ass join the peace corps. The Marines will come get you when you get in trouble.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They tried this once. It was called Gomer Pyle, USMC

[FerociousRabbit]

“The Navy has been airing their “globalist force for good” commercials for awhile now.”

I saw the Navy commercial one day with my son (who is in high school). He said, “Force for good? I thought they were supposed to be the world’s most powerful force of death and destruction for anyone who tried to harm us. They make it look like a floating Red Cross. I don’t think that Halsey guy in WWII would like the new Navy.”

The direction the military is being forced to take is not lost on the youth.

[pabianice]

That crashing sound you here is my old Marine DI from Pensacola thrashing around in his grave. But if Obozo can order NASA to tell Muslims how wonderful they are for inventing science, math, space travel, luggage, flower arranging, medicine, and the flush toilet, I guess he can order the USMC to wear pink.

[Ozymandias Ghost]

The Marine Corps already has a “kinder gentler” side. It’s called “Toys for Tots.”

International “Meals on wheels” type crap is a misuse of the Marine Corps and taxpayer funds. Makes me want to puke.

[DoughtyOne]

This is what I was addressing:  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Marines are highlighting a kinder, gentler side in a new ad campaign.

To me this implied that our Marines needed to be more touchy-feely overseas.  I'm wasn't buying it.  I want our guys to use the best tactics that get the job done, and ensure them coming home.

My response was geared to address the issues that I want them coming home alive, enjoying their family, and vise versa.

Since the topic was framed for how our Marines treated people, I made it clear who I am most concerned with them treating properly with no malicious intent whatsoever.

I obviously care that the Marines do in total, but my biggest care is how they treat their families when they come home alive. Outside of basic human rights, that’s where my concerns end when they’re in the field of combat.

If there wasn’t trouble they wouldn’t be there. Stop causing trouble, and forget about them showing up. Forget about them doing something you don’t like.

If you wish to read something negative into that, be my guest.  It wasn't what I intended, and even not worded as good as it could have been, you're trying way to hard to find disagreement where there is none.  I have never taken a negative stand when it comes to our troops.  Trying to lecture me on the media slant concerning our Marines is a waste of time.

[ScottinVA]

Somehow I don’t think our future opponents in China are engaging in “forces for good.” Nor are two members of the same gender liplocking upon return from deployment.

“America” is getting sicker by the day....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Man this is a turgid hunk of prose. I don’t know what you are trying to mean, and at this juncture will not guess.

[Mr Rogers]

Maybe YOU can help one of THEM!

The Few. The Proud. The Helpers.

[Borax Queen]

That’s good to hear, thank you.

[DoughtyOne]

If that’s your take on it, that’s fine. It does methodically address the issues you raised.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the method is to be turgid, it succeeded.

[DoughtyOne]

The wording and thought progression is straight forward and crystal clear. If you wish to continue to act as if it isn’t, I don’t mind. You have a right to your opinion.

[USMCPOP]

“The Marine Corps already has a “kinder gentler” side. It’s called “Toys for Tots.”

My rail-thin Marine son damn near froze to death on a Toys for Tots mission. Try standing around and looking good outside a store in the wintertime in your dress blues while the wind whips all around. Marines have discipline.

[July4]

The few. The proud. The Rump-rangers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Clear maybe to the crystal in your cranium — I don’t see a single reply to you saying “yeah, man.”

[Antoninus]

I read things like this and think to myself that my children and grandchildren are going to be fighting a shooting war on our own soil.

[Las Vegas Ron]

The Fabulous New Marine Corps.

Thimply, yeth.

Grrrr, I can't post that in good conscious

[DoughtyOne]

This is what I was addressing:  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Marines are highlighting a kinder, gentler side in a new ad campaign.

Is this confusing to you?

To me this implied that our Marines needed to be more touchy-feely overseas.  I'm wasn't buying it.  I want our guys to use the best tactics that get the job done, and ensure them coming home.

You're not able to understand what I said up to this point?  Was this anti-Marine?

My response was geared to address the issues that I want them coming home alive, enjoying their family, and vise versa.

You can't understand this?  Really?  That isn't an easy concept for you to grasp?

Since the topic was framed for how our Marines treated people, I made it clear who I am most concerned with them treating properly with no malicious intent whatsoever.

The meaning of this eludes you?  It doesn't explain what my intent was, and that it wasn't intended to be a slam at all?

I obviously care that the Marines do in total, but my biggest care is how they treat their families when they come home alive. Outside of basic human rights, that’s where my concerns end when they’re in the field of combat.

If there wasn’t trouble they wouldn’t be there. Stop causing trouble, and forget about them showing up. Forget about them doing something you don’t like.

These two paragraphs are the content of the post you first objected to.  You didn't recognize something you focused on to disagree with me?

I used italics and blue to highlight the portion you disagreed with most.  You couldn't understand that either?  The gray completes the post.  You couldn't grasp that?

If you wish to read something negative into that, be my guest.

Is this too tough a concept for you to grasp?  Seriously.

It wasn't what I intended, and even not worded as good as it could have been, you're trying way to hard to find disagreement where there is none.

You couldn't understand this either?  I doesn't expres to you that you may have been trying to hard to find an insult where none was intended?

I have never taken a negative stand when it comes to our troops.

This was confusing to you?

Trying to lecture me on the media slant concerning our Marines is a waste of time.

What part of this was over your head?

If you can't grasp the meaning of my post, I think it says far more about you than it does me.