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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Satchel @ July 03 2002,06:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">They have some nice videos up:

http://www.benning.army.mil/OIP/INFANTRY%20CD/VIDEO%202.htm

(currently down)

Check the para and live firing video once it´s available again, they are huge (40-50MB) but fun to watch complete with sound&music.

If i was that age again, these videos would certainly appeal more to me than a video game if i´d consider to join the  armed forces.<span id='postcolor'>

I think what many kids don't realise is that while it might be fun and cool to watch such things, they are much less fun to actually do.

Crawling through mud in a video game is quite different from when you have to do it IRL. Firing a weapon is much less fun when you have to spend ten times of the time cleaning it. Jumping from a helicopter into water with full gear looks very cool, but IRL it's no fun. The water is cold, the gear heavy, the helicopter creates a small storm on the surface and so on.. These things you can't experience watching a video or playing a game.

[Satchel 0]

It depends on your interests, while for some people it´s an horror to do PT or beeing in the field for a longer period, others can´t get enough of it.

It´s about giving either a right or wrong picture about soldering and opportunities in PR campaigns,  eventually leading to someones enlistment based on the picture they´ve got, as long as its somewhere within realistical frames.

In most countries including the U.S. there are lots of opportunities to get first hand experience and a foretaste of what army service can be like before you actually join them, here it´s called "Truppenwerbung" for example.

Someone who is interested can "play" soldier for a couple of days, while getting an insight into the normal routine, talking to soldiers, and get the same cheap ass food we do.

With a video you can show actual people doing little fragments of what makes the service, in a videogame however the whole thing becomes totally perverted.

What  isn´t shown in PR videos of course is bureaucracy of dumbest sort, things that go regulary wrong or doesn´t make any sense at all, boredom etc,  all those making a great deal of a military career, no matter in what army, branch or specific job you serve.

[Longinius 1]

"That is of course true, but it doesn't make the service less moronic"

Of course not. I just meant that it can't have been a complete waste of time since you got something good out of it, eventually.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Satchel @ July 03 2002,14:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">It depends on your interests, while for some people it´s an horror to do PT or beeing in the field for a longer period, others can´t get enough of it.<span id='postcolor'>

I think that we can all guess in what category 13 year old CS kiddies fall

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

I would have went to the army because of the scout-factor. I love this nature stuff. The guns? Not really! But the horsepowers of a tank that is another nice reason to join.

Unfortunately I was third son (my to brothers did their military service allready) so my father said it would be nonesense for me to join. My friends all went to the Gebirgsjaeger in Mittenwald while I started learning spanish! I really regret it! But maybe it was the right chice though!