Can You Really Call It The Reserves Right Now?
Have you seen this commercial?
It’s one of the Army Reserve recruting comercials. It’s the one where the son and the dad are talking and the son keeps telling the dad that “it’s the Reserves” and the dad keeps repeating “but it’s the Army”. The son keeps trying to reassure the father that it’s not really the Army because he can still go to college and it’s “just the Reserves;” the Reserves’ll do all of the training “around here until they need me”. In the end, the father is convinced because it’s the Reserves and not the Army so everything is o.k.
Everytime I see that commercial, I want to throw up.
I mean, let’s say that the kid does in fact actually get into college. Considering the state of the country today, he might get a semmester under his belt before he’s called up and sent to Iraq. The likelihood that he’ll have time to get another semmester in before his second tour is very low.
Two years ago, a local university handed an honorary diploma to the grieving wife of a dead soldier who had died the month before in Iraq. He had been one semmester away from his degree when he had left for Iraq.
I guess I don’t think the promise of college is worth the risk right now. I just think it’s false advertising.
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