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What If The Military Advertised With Disclaimers? [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 5:25 AM on October 20, 2007.


A commercial that gives an honest account of what US military service would really mean.
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As we all know young Americans recruited for the military are often convinced that they are signing up for some kind of live action video game and are rarely given a sense of the horrors they're going to encounter abroad. The video to your right is a parody commercial for the marines crafted in the style of a pharmaceutical advertisement complete with warnings about side effects. Check it out.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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