history lessons

Free translation: the soldiers are saying how much they love doing the exercises, how they didn't know they had these capabilities, "you should have spirit and stamina" blablabla. It ends with the colonel saying "i am your leader". Great sheep spirit I say. Two years and two months, I had to endure crap like this. And for what purpose exactly?

While discussing my idea with a friend, he gave me a youtube link for 'waterboarding instructions'. Waterboarding, passed as legal in the UK and the US, and is an interrogation method (torture). Observe the soldiers facial expression, and please do share with me the rational for what exactly makes the particular being as 'human'. Quote from Wikipedia: "Waterboarding gained recent attention and notoriety in the United States when the press reported that the CIA had used waterboarding in the interrogation of certain extrajudicial prisoners [15] and that the Justice Department had authorized this procedure. [16] The new controversy surrounded the widely reported use of waterboarding by the United States government on alleged terrorists , and whether the practice was acceptable". Ah, such wonderful activities one can indulge in the army. Join Now!

An article saying that 48% of all soldiers found the army worse than they expected with only 20% thinking it was better. Another article regarding the unexplained deaths of four young soldiers within training, to which the army supports the deaths were suicide, something the families denied. One needs to bare in mind that a person commiting suicide is not doing it because he/she is in a jolly good environment filled with happiness and bliss. There's another article regarding the four "suicides" here . Further on it stands on an Amnesty International survey which revealed a number of 1,748 "non-natural" deaths since 1990. Deepcut barracks which are also mentioned for their brutal, sadist initiation ceremonies they conduct have been brought to my attention by Peter, when he discovered some photographs that came out of naked soldiers fighting. The clever move by the mod to close down the deepcut barracks has been thought of as innapropriate before a decend enqu...

The idea came up upon first looking at the d&ad briefs (see previous post). After taking part last year, then seeing the final winner, it became very difficult for me wanting to participate this year. The fact that I promised myself after finishing my business course that I would never again take part in the advertising or marketing industry, makes it a bit harder. This year the briefs are all relate to the advertising industry, apart from the Bob Dylan brief, that I won't even start on discussing. Peter and I decided on doing the armyjobs brief. It is a difficult task as we want to make a statement against the army and war, yet keepi ng with the objectives set. Up until yesterday we didn't even know whether we could 'get away' with it. But thanks to Micheal's support we're diving head first into it. Yes some of you share a different opinion on the army, and that would be perfectly coherent and understandable in the 1800's. Not in 2008. If a person tri...