U.S. Army Recruiting Video Criticized By Senator for Being too “Woke”
This is not the type of attention that US Army Recruiting Command was looking for with this ad campaign:
Two weeks ago, the Army’s official recruiting website released a series of animated advertisementsshowcasing the stories of several soldiers on their journey to join the nation’s oldest branch.
One in particular features Cpl. Emma Malonelord, a soldier raised in California by two moms.
Since its upload to YouTube, however, this video’s comment section has been disabled. It currently has nearly a million views, 36,000 dislikes and only 775 likes.
“Beginning May 12 we started noticing a significant uptick in negative commentary,” Laura DeFrancisco, public affairs chief for the Army Enterprise Marketing Office, told Army Times. “The comments violated our social media policy and were not aligned with Army values. Out of respect for the safety and wellbeing of our soldiers and their families, we have disabled the comments.”
Hers is one of five stories selected by the branch for recruiting advertisements under the series, titled “The Calling.”
Army Times
You can read more at the link, but Ted Cruz had to comment about all this using a Russian propaganda video:
The recruiting Youtube video is not at only 1k likes and 46 dislikes. You would think they would have turned off this feature by now. Plenty of bot accounts from foreign adversaries are sure to go and troll a US military video like this.
Cool story but why is she only an E-4? Seems with a college degree she should have been steered into officer land…she doesn’t need a PC video, she needs a career counselor that is better than her recruiter. Honestly the number of moms or dads she has doesn’t move the needle for me.
Two issues:
1) nothing in that video has anything to do with being in the Army
2) there are lesbians in the Army? Who would have guessed.
https://twitter.com/RuminatorDan/status/1394950807850786824
Don’t trust propaganda with the (((comments turned off)))
VP Harris shows disrespect to President Moon.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2021/05/21/watch-kamala-harris-wipes-her-hand-on-her-pants-immediately-after-shaking-hands-with-president-moon/
Turning off comments on a video is censorship. That’s the Left’s new attack vector.
Borrowing a line from R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket, “Well you little maggot, you make me wanna vomit!” Narcissistic moves by the “woke” arm of the Left have no place in how the U.S. military is portrayed to the outside world.
I’m sure that we’ll start seeing reaction videos posted to this new spew of recruiting videos ridiculing them and making the U.S. military a laughing stock in the eyes of Russia, China, and all the other militaries around the world.
Thanks Sleepy Joe!
She obviously enlisted on the 6 year college loan repayment deal. Pin on E4 at AIT due to college degree. Unit laterally promoted her to CPL.
@Flyingsword – Thanks! I didn’t know that’s how they worked the college repayment now.