“Towards the Sound of Chaos”
I just saw the new Marine Corps recruiting commercial called “Towards the Sound of Chaos” and it was pretty cool. Of course, it’s so new, it’s not on YouTube yet. But I found it at the Marine Corps website but I can’t get the damn thing to embed, so you’ll have to go to the link until I figure this thing out;
The New York Times describes the scene;
The campaign’s inaugural television commercial opens with scenes of a smoke-draped horizon and the sounds of gunfire and people screaming in the distance. The terrain is vaguely desertlike, but there are no geographic landmarks — not even a hill — to pin down the location. It could be Africa, Central Asia or Kansas.
Marines then sprint into the picture and toward the smoke, F/A-18 fighter jets screaming overhead. Before the minute-long ad is over, virtually every form of Marine war-fighting hardware — the much-critiqued V-22 Osprey, Cobra attack helicopters, amphibious assault vehicles and a hovercraft — make guest appearances.
“Most people hear the sounds of chaos and run in the opposite direction,” the baritone-voiced narrator says. “But there are a few who listen intently for these sounds, not in the hopes of hearing them, but to help rid the world of them.”
The spot ends with a provocative tagline: “Which way would you run?”
The ad was just released Saturday, so I’m pretty sure that the hand-wringers haven’t had a chance to circle their pink-bunting covered wagons yet. I’m fairly certain they’ll be wetting their panties soon enough. But, I think the Marines did a good job…after all, they’re trying to attract people who would run towards the sound of the guns, not a bunch of bed-wetting sissies whose sensibilities will be offended that there are better men than them in the world.
Category: Marine Corps
I saw it yesterday. The hand wringers should be mollified by the trucks laden with “AID”
Wow, no shit that is good.
No offering shit, no holding out your hands, no benneton commercial type shit. Just a simple question, what type of person are you. Fahkin A that is a good commercial.
And that is so very a RU shirt, and awesome.
Suck it Harry Truman
Thanks ROS, I added it, but Jonn keeps editting for some reason.
Just watched it. A straight up challenge and a call to duty, Right On!
You’re welcome.
(I suspect he’s doing it to toy with your emotions.)
Time to revisit this:
http://www.killology.com/sheep_dog.htm
I love this. What I find funny is that the Navy wanted to basically project the same type of call to duty, but ended up with a final marketingfail product: A Global Force for Good
Yeah, gee, I wonder what that warning at the top of the dashboard that says “Jonn Lilyea is currently editing this post” means. Thanks, ROS.
@11. LOL. My bad bud.
Any questions?
What no dragon…no flaming sword???? By Chesty Puller’s screaming ghost!
Makes me almost wish I was 18 years younger so I could hit myself in the head with a brick so I could become a Marine. LOL kidding love my jarhead brothers.
Succinct and to the point. I’m sure the usual crowd will have a group cry about it.
Gosh, that made me want to join up. Where do I sign?
Needs more lava monster.
In all seriousness, these are the cleanest looking Marines I’ve ever seen.
I wanna have cool commercials, dammit. When does the Army get its turn?
Menoth #18, like I told TSO earlier the NY Times says the Army is working on a new commercial, too. I’m sure it will be replete with teh ghey.
I’m Army…and that ad made my dick hard.
Can’t embed, eh? Understand at least one other famous milblogger is having that problem recently. (smile)
Damn, damn, damn! I HATE BEING OLD!!!!
Hoo-fuckin-ya, indeed.
So this means..we’re going into Syria???
I have to agree. The “AID” boxes were stupid. God bless the Marines….
CTIC(SS)
Awful lot of bang-bang hardware for a ration run. Guess Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children don’t do things half-assed.
Dammit! Now I just don’t feel like I’m being all I can be as an Army of One. What the hell was I thinking!?!
Even our commercials are hard corps. Could have used more amtracks though.
Day-umm. Well done.
Being brutally honest keeps away the limp wristed weenies and those who may hesitate at the moment of truth. Very helpful during my stint as an evil soul collector for sata–I mean– recruiter for the Marine Corps.
Oh, you got that look when you went into schools too, eh Redacted?
Yep, over the shoulder, as they quickly moved away from me. Funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen.
And it’s not like I was a SEAL or anything. Heck, you’d think kids would be happy to hear Navy nukes were getting $12K enlistment bonuses.
“first to move towards the sounds of tyranny, injustice and despair.”
So, am I to assume the USMC is setting up a perimeter around Washington, DC?
Just sayin’.
Something tells me the whiners at I Hate The USMC won’t be too fond of the new ad:
http://ihatetheusmc.com/
They goofed big time Ann. Recently they added a tirade from a bald, skull masked individual in Dress Blues claiming to be a Marine. Little did they know this particular piece of trash was an avid white supremacist (which the admin could have figured out had he bothered to watch the rest of his videos). The video was up for less than 24 hours. The little whiners will grasp carelessly at even the slightest hint of dissent hoping it will lend legitimacy to their opinion. In this case, they supported the opinion of a skinhead.
The Marines are the most over hyped organization in the history of mankind.
Hey, look, Drunk Dave is conscious, and presumably, half way sober.
Where are those docs, DUIDave?
Ah….DUIDave! The most under-hyped, misunderstood and ugly stepchild of abuse ever to present itself here at TAH. Doc’s dude. Wheres yer paper?
@38 send me your email.. I am not sending them through this site or any email that is affiliated with this site. And I want to see your documents too.. You want to question mine I will question yours..
@37 I am not sober I am getting crunk listening to the greatest band ever Rush
Whoa the Drunkard, its been awhile, that must have been one helluva blackout.
Somebody was obviously born with a peanut in his head…he used the word crunk.
@43 crunk is a term used down south but you wouldn’t know nothing about that.. Listen to stand up and get crunk by the ying yang twins and get back to me..
You are correct, I don’t know anything about what you are talking about…and I don’t think you do you do either.
DUIDave: Post your e-mail address and I’ll send you my contact information. The SHA-1 hash of the address I will send you is 4a6b2ac5f12116efcda9880139e7c6c097a8c466; the MD5 hash is c2802a95774b12489ccb06b46a223d2c. I used the following tool to calculate these hash values; you can use it to verify that address is valid and from me:
http://www.fileformat.info/tool/hash.htm
Make sure you don’t input any spaces or other info when using the tool – just the e-mail address.
As for sending you my docs: nice try – but that wasn’t part of the deal you originally made, fella. Remember: you were the one who offered to send your docs to me, no strings attached – I didn’t ask you to send them to me. You did that in writing, 10 days ago, in comments 51 and 52 to this article:
http://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=28995
I accepted your offer, and I agreed to review the docs you sent me and post my opinion regarding them. That’s all I agreed to do. I also suggested a means for you to get my contact info; you haven’t bothered to use it. Ten days later, I’m still waiting for you to live up to your end of the deal. Instead, you’ve been silent on the subject until now.
I also remind you that I’ve made no claims regarding my military service here that have been questioned (and precious few claims period), nor have I previously offered or agreed to send you or anyone else here a damn thing. In contrast, you’ve been challenged to “put up or shut up”. So at this point, I feel no obligation whatsoever to satisfy your curiosity.
We can talk about me sending anything to anyone after you’ve lived up to the deal you made 10 days ago. Not before.
Now live up to the deal you made – or live with the fact that everyone here, including me, will know you are nothing but a damned liar.
Wasting your time Hondo.
At least he had the courtesy (sort of) to move the clock to a new thread…11 days and counting, Dave.
You could be right, Adam_S. But as I’ve said elsewhere, I can be a stubborn sonofabitch. And if Dave persists in failing to deliver, I don’t mind publicly reminding everyone of that fact from time to time.
Amazingly enough though, it’s only over hyped by those who were never Marines, or in any branch for that matter. To those Marines both past and present, it just is what it is. Not my fault you have an inferiority complex, Dave. Have another drink.