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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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10 Nov 2005 07:06:15 AM |
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Why Christofascist dumb down Americans |
Army Invades NASCAR Nation to Drive Recruitment
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1293441&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
ATLANTA, Nov. 8, 2005 — There is fresh evidence today
of the challenges the Army faces in signing up recruits.
The Army will meet its recruiting goals for last month -
but only after it tripled the number of recruits who
scored at the bottom of its aptitude tests.
The Iraq war and the improving economy have forced recruiters
to be more creative. They have found one place where their
sales pitch is still well received: NASCAR Nation.
At every NASCAR event this year, the Army is setting up a
military theme park in an attempt to turn young race fans
into future soldiers. It is spending $16 million this year
on the recruitment effort, using rock climbing walls,
dog tags, and electronic gunfights on simulated Iraqi streets.
"We call it event marketing," said Lt. Gen. Robert Van Antwerp,
who was looking for new recruits at an Atlanta race. "At an event
like this, we'll get about 2,000 leads, and on the whole about
40,000 leads, where we're getting young people, ages 17 to 24,
that want to come talk to a recruiter. So it's good."
The Army even sponsors its own race car. Before each race,
recruits get to meet the driver, racing veteran Joe Nemecheck,
in a place most NASCAR fans would pay good money to see:
his garage.
"NASCAR's done a very good job in their marketing and made
this a very popular sport," Nemecheck said. "So you have to
take advantage of that."
Each branch of the service is represented at the races -
the Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and National Guard.
Each branch supports or sponsors race cars.
The fans - mostly Southerners and highly patriotic -
haven't expressed concern about the marketing.
"No matter what we think about the war,
NASCAR fans support our troops," one NASCAR fan
told ABC News.
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| User: "Desertphile" |
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| Title: Re: Why Christofascist dumb down Americans |
10 Nov 2005 08:44:07 PM |
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It is spending $16 million this year
on the recruitment effort, using rock climbing walls,
dog tags, and electronic gunfights on simulated Iraqi streets.
This is fucking *SICK!*
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: Why Christofascist dumb down Americans |
11 Nov 2005 03:28:19 AM |
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"Desertphile" <desertphile@hotmail.com> wrote:
It is spending $16 million this year
on the recruitment effort, using rock climbing walls,
dog tags, and electronic gunfights on simulated Iraqi streets.
This is fucking *SICK!*
Pretending to murder Iraqi children to recruit real baby killers
to slaughter, rape, and torture real Iraqi children Extremely sick.
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http://www.ElmerFudd.US/ http://www.rightard.org/ http://www.thedarkwind.org/
"Sex is only perverted if it implants voracious alien parasites in your
bladder or rectum." -- nu-monet v8.0
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