The few, the proud
A number of you want to discuss the fact that the Marine Corps has decided to scrap their recruiting slogan “The few, the proud, the Marines”, the Washington Times reports.
“‘The Few, The Proud,’ does a great job distinguishing ourselves from the other branches and making us prestigious to recruits, but it doesn’t say anything about what we do or why we exist,” Lt. Col. John Caldwell, a spokesman for Marine Corps Recruiting Command, told the Marine Corps Times on Monday. “The new products are going to frame everything that we do as a fight — a fight that we intend to win.”
Other popular slogans the branch of service have used over the past four decades include “If Everybody Could Get In The Marines, It Wouldn’t Be The Marines,” and “We’re Looking for a Few Good Men,” although the officer said the new campaign is not linked with efforts to incorporate women into combat jobs.
I don’t see the big deal. Change it, don’t change it. Just stop sending me emails.
I do like the 82d Airborne Division’s new recruiting video, though;
Category: Who knows
*WAVES!*
Hi Pope AFB, Hi Green Ramp!!! HI 3RD MAPS!!
Aerial Porters supporting the 82nd WOOT!!!
/been there, done that, gots the tee shirt.
Some Lt Col asshole wants to make a name for himself and make Col. in the process…phuck him! leave it alone!!
jesus I’m old. I remember jumping with the T-10B. oy….
Gee I thought the 82nd recruiting slogan was Only two things fall from the sky… Bird shit and Idiots.
I guess I’ll smoke a turd in purgatory for that one.
But, there’s so much violence portrayed in that video! Scary black guns! Bullets! Trigger warning! Can’t we all co-exist?
I self-identify as a gossamer-skinned petal-colored snowflake that’s offended by your SARCasm
I was being sarcastic? As I’ve aged, I’ve gotten more in touch with my inner self. I may start yoga. I may even become a vegan (after I hit up Long Horn). I may reach out to the DRG and try and get in touch with their feelings. Lastly, I will give Lars a manly hug…Lord knows he needs it…but he’s probably accept a tranny hug from some one.
Scratch the yoga. It will give you yoga pants. As for your inner self, why do you want to touch it?
If you decide to reach out to your inner child, my advice is DON’T, I did once and the little shit nearly bit my finger off!!
This doesn’t need to be fixed, because ‘it ain’t broke’. To my mind, the phrase ‘The Few, the Proud, the Marines’ has become iconic.
Some things are better left alone. This is one of them.
Semper Fi.
The Marines are probably the one branch that doesn’t need to change (or should change) their recruiting slogan.
We seem to live in a world where that saying is now, “Quick! Break it so we have something to fix!”
Semper Fi Mick…..
We have a zika epidemic and everyone wants to talk about the Marine slogan? WTF?
That above was for Poodledick. /sarc
“‘The Few, The Proud,’ does a great job distinguishing ourselves from the other branches and making us prestigious to recruits, but it doesn’t say anything about what we do or why we exist….”
What the fuck is he talking about? EVERYONE knows what the Marines do. They kick the shit out of the enemy and fucking WIN.
Sigh, WTF is wrong with people, It’s a classic leave it the fuck alone, the new one I’m sure will be all gayed up.
I detect the slimy hand of the dick-licking SecNav in this. Maybe he wants the USMC to change it to “The Gay, The Transgendered”?
The Good Idea Fairy is lurking around Recruiting Command, apparently.
“The United States Marines….
We break people’s shit, blow more shit the fuck up and kill motherfuckers.”
/just rolls off the tongue 😉
There is no need for any of this commercial crap. I agree that everyone damn well knows which branch is for them. If you want to look like a bellhop, you go USMC. If you want to bunk with transexuals, you go Navy. If you want to think yourself intellectually superior, you go USAF. And if you can’t decide which of them you want, you go Army.(I am omitting the Coast Guard. They’re just too sensitive.)
If you like to play in mud puddles, then go to the Coast Guard. Them’s the Puddle Pirates…. Arrrr Mayteys.
Lots of love to the Post Toasties out there!!
This change is unnecessary.
The Marine Corps has always been the best at marketing themselves and that phrase has become as well known as any phrase in military history.
Decades of well crafted branding that has actually shaped the very identity of the Marine Corps itself.
A high risk choice.
I like that 82nd Airborne video, they do a much better job than the 173rd… The 173rd’s recruiting video was just savage… (It was interesting to see it happen firsthand, sucks to be those Riggers and the JM)
*POOF*, *POOF*, *POOF*, three perfectly good trucks turned into scrap metal, I would HATE to have to fill out the paperwork for that!
-Anything- is air-droppable, once.
I know I posted this a couple of weeks ago but it’s worth posting again:
I once asked a rigger if you could drop a fully loaded 5 ton truck.
His response was “You can drop anything ONCE.” 😀
Aw, 11b beat me to it… 🙁
The Marines are exceptionally good at branding themselves, so I have a feeling that if they feel this change is necessary they have a good reason. It may have to do with What appeals to the type of recruits they want, but it may also have to do with their view of future budget fights.
They have been semi officially calling themselves ‘America’s Expeditionary Force in Readiness’ for some time now as a way to carve out a niche in DoD. They have been concerned that the Marine experience in two land locked countries was painting them as a smaller, less capable force than the Army.
Remember the Army’s ‘Army of One’ campaign? It was designed to resonate with Gen X and Y kids, but pissed off serving Soldiers. It gave way to Army Strong
“Smaller, less capable Army?” Pretty sure Helmand and Al Anbar Provinces were the worst places to be until the smallest branch in the military locked them down, but ok.
“I was going to join the Army but it sounded too hard.”: said no Marine ever.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Semper Fi!
And they were still the worst places when the Marines left. Along with the vaunted British. Don’t kid yourself.
I don’t mind all of the Marine’s self masturbation except when it’s at the expense of the Army. Which they spend an inordinate amount of time focused on
Hm who facilitated the Anbar Awakening that basically transformed Anbar from the most restive Province in Iraq to being one of the most quiet? Tip: it wasn’t the Army.
No one is saying the Marines aren’t a capable force. However, the Marine Corps is much smaller than the Army and has a fraction of the capability. The Marines don’t have anywhere near the range of capabilities of the Army- no mechanized forces worth mentioning, a fraction of the armored capability, a fraction of the artillery, and no logistics capability worth mentioning.
Anbar and Helmland were two provinces, and the Army was in both of them. The Army also provided the bulk of the force in both of the other two countries as well as the OEF Philippines and HOA.
The Marines seem to be turning themselves into a grounded F-35 squadron that also guards embassies.
The blog SNAFU seems to make the point rather directly, often:
snafu-solomon. blogspot. com
The author is not … kind … to those who fail to meet his expectations.
In fact, looks like the Army is going back to Helmand right now…
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/world/asia/us-troops-helmand-province-afghanistan.html?_r=0
Sending SOF duders from any branch is hardly “deploying the branch.”
Maybe they are good at branding themselves. Now, if they could just decide on a fucking camo design.
The Marines have worn MARPAT for last 14 yrs I believe,and w/ no plans to make changes.
ACUs looked appealing but apparently they only work on grandma’s couch.
First the Army lost “Be all you can be” and now this for the Corps. Are they gonna go to something like the old “Today’s Army wants to join you” bullshit? I prefer “Join the Marines. Travel to exciting distant lands. Meet interesting people. And kill them.”
We’re here. We’re queer. Also transgenders!
Sir, we will tell you what our acceptable pronouns are sir!
Who is the efin yahoo that directed the 82nd video? Observation #1: fingers in ears so maybe not adequate ear protection. Observation #2: Everyone and everything in neat cammo with two bright yellow water coolers with bright red tops. Observation #3: White guys wearing black face. That will get a commander relieved and the ACLU down on them like a tick on a biscuit. Other than those avoidable blunders, where do I enlist?
“yellow water coolers” That jumped out at me too. But I’ve seen what troopers take on an “invasion” and it didn’t surprise me. In my era there were massive boom boxes as we invaded the Dominican Republic.
The only guys I saw with their fingers in their ears were the cannoneers. You see a lot of gun section chiefs that only have ear pro in one ear- they have to be able to hear commands and firing data from the FDC.
No excuse for the coolers, although it looked to be some sort of CP or log area- there’s a huge blivet looking thing in front of the HMMWV
Hey, it beat the living shit out of that “Global Force for Good” bullshit.
The current Navy commercial makes me laugh, every time. First there’s a shot of what looks to be a UN force dressed in Navy uniforms. Then there’s the voice saying, “To get to you, they’d have to get by us.” It is silly as hell for a few reasons. First, I always add “again” to the end of that line. Second, who are they? Third, if they are terrorists, is the Navy aware of a pending assault by amphibious enemy forces at, say, Coney Island? The commercial just cracks me up.
New Marine Slogan..hmmm..how about “We are here to kill everything”
No matter what little slogan they come up with it will still be Unlimited Shit and Mass Confusion.
I love Army commercials. This is the commercial that hooked Jonn years ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA I love these. This poor bastard thinks what happened is a good thing.
If the motto must be changed. Why not use part of a Chesty quote,” for centuries this Country has been making Marines and we win wars!
Sure, who needs the steenkin army, navy, and air force. I mean really what have they ever done?
Well, if you stupid cis alpha dominate human persons can’t figure it out and get with the times, I’ll mansplain it to you: it is not inclusive and not reflective of our progressive society. It is EXCLUSIVE! Duh!
If it’s not broken don’t fix it. I liked the Army’s slogan “Be All You Can Be In The Army”. They should have kept it.
We need to stop regressing our military.
If they HAVE to change it ( I hope not) then I think “No better Friend (showing evacuation from Lebanon ala Anthony Bourdain being evacuated), No worse enemy” (showing massive firepower)
Army! Navy! Air Force! Marines!
What a great day, its a great way of life!
I’m not so much worried about losing the old mottos as I am what the fuck they will come up with under this shit stain administration.
Great video, got my blood moving this morning! Especially liked the GoPro cam views of jumps!
Thumbs up on the 82nd video.
Who else remembers when the C-130’s with the “Flying Tiger” Shark-mouth designs were based at Pope (this would have been the mid 1990s?) Made me feel like a badass to be jumping out of those. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23d_Fighter_Group#23d_Operations_Group