Down Time
So we have some posts recently regarding the normal media groupthink about military and extremists, ie. Jonn’s posts about the portrayal of the Sikh temple shooter and now the white supremicist asshat that said his chain of command was fine with his swastika flag (cough, cough, BULLSHIT)
In my spare time I’m a swim coach, as a kid my sport of choice was swimming. So I hear about a video the US Swim team did lip syncing to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call be Maybe” and I set out to find it to post on the team website….then I run across this….I’m now waiting to see if the Ranger Up crew has something in the offering a la Katy Perry!
WARNING: If you don’t have a sense of humor, leave now!
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
I will always remain convinced that the first time any guy heard this song was when someone forwarded him a copy of the video of the Dolphins cheerleaders lip synching to it.
That confirms it.
We are all joint now.
I claim ignorance! I’m a metal/classic rock guy….first time I heard this was the US Swim Team lip sync!
Me, too, OT! But that was really fun to watch.
This video makes me want to punt a baby.
Nice to see my tax dollars at work. 🙂
What has HAPPENED to my Marine Corps ?
Compared to all the homemade military satire videos on YouTube this is just plain LAME.
Give me some “Is This the Way to Amarillo?” by the Royal Dragoon Guards.
Or some “Peanut Butter Jelly Time In Iraq” from Medic Mafia.
@6
Maybe “work” not accurate description.
Terminal Lance sums it up for me http://terminallance.com/2012/07/24/terminal-lance-call-me-maybe-infantry-version/
hardest part of my deployment? Not being able to watch videos because of websense…
@1: I will admit, that was the first time I heard of this song.
@6 and 9: If you read the backstory on this, there was no wasted time making this video. They filmed it in an hour. The service members made it when they could have been at chow. They stoped working at chow time, spent a half hour to practice, half hour to film, and then went right back to work.
On a side note I also think this video is lame. As a grunt I agree with #10. Stuff like this is why so many grunts have the view of rear echelon folks that they do. I am NOT trying to bash rear echelon, we all have a job to do.
C’mon Twist…..grunts never goof off on their down time? I got a camel into the shower at our AA in Saudi Arabia ‘fer crying out loud…..thank god Top never figured out who did that… 😉
Oh we do goof off. That wasn’t the point I was trying to get accross, and I wasn’t trying to be crass. I was talking more about the living conditions and the sparkling clean equipment. I need to articulate what I mean better and wait until I have had my coffee before I post anything.
But the burning question is….how in the hell did you get a camel into the shower?
I understand Twist, During Desert Sheild by the time the mobile PX (a cargo container) made it to the front there was never anything left but generic smokes and diet soda. I got issued desert camo AFTER the war was over!
Turns out Camels like the choclate chip hockey puck thing in MREs…who knew?
The camel definetly beats my borrowing the Muktar’s donkey and riding it around his compound.
BLUF: Friggin awesome … moral is high … they look healthy and they are having fun between taskings!
JOINT is good!