Sure, at expense they will weed them out....... while a percentage of those that they should be attracting will take one look at those videos and laugh.

Like I say, I presented two videos.......one of them was an army recruitment video designed to attract the kind of people you need in an army.

My son says the standard of recruits that are coming through at the moment are just not up to scratch.

he is a section leader.therefore he leads in battle and training.

both him and his mates say that there is always a better standard of recruit when there are conflicts we are involved in.

sad state of affairs but there you are,he should know.

expand in what way,and the advert just goes over their heads to be honest.
I think you have to be a certain type to be in the "services"
not saying my son is a psychopath or anything like that,but he enjoys the army,the life, the travelling (although he misses the Palace when he is away.).
But from what he says you have to have a certain hardness about you.
he is off to kenya next week then Nigeria,so he gets about.

I was in South Sudan for the civil war last year JSYK although arguing this on an internet forum with a complete stranger is as beta as it gets so plz help me be a real man and teach me your wayz Alpha-dog

You righties love the army but you don't give a s*** how the soldiers are treated, it's so contradictory I can't even argue with it. How we treated our soldiers (shootin' em in the face) after "cowardice" (a lack of understanding how the human brain actually works) was disgusting and even though our ad for the army was limp-wristed, it's nice to see there is at least the pretence we care about people we send out to keep us and others safe.

Edited by Mr Fenandes (02 Feb 2018 9.18am)

I don't like the title but the army is a bit like a family isn't it? Especially for young men who have left home and may not have had much experience of life.
On another note I saw the ads designed to attract muslims into the army - I didn't like them.
I don't like the film style of the adverts now. Preferred the ones where people jump out of armoured cars. I was in the army several years. The closest I got to an armoured car was lying down next to a column of tanks as it trundled past on Salibury plain and looking in a captured Iraqi one.
As for winning wars we all seem to have missed the point of WW2. The highest trained, motivated, co-ordinated and best equipied army of WW2 lost to the mass hordes with poorly made equipment of the Allies. Mainly the Soviets. We seem to think that well-trained soldiers and better equipment guarantee us a win, in reality China or even North-Korea could probably overrun most western armies within a few days. Not because we are rubbish or we have emotions, but because there are millions of them and a couple of hundred thousand of us.