"Be All You Can Be" ...just as soon as you get back from Iraq (if you come back).

Yeah! "Be All You Can Be"...jus as soon as you get back from Iraq! (if you come back). :)

The Army, like any U.S. government agency can do and say anything it chooses until gets caught - then a lie will suffice instead of the truth.

The public is used to it - it's called 24/7 news: Opinion/innuendo a must, while facts/truth take a backseat.

I am sure ABC and The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy are just so darned perfect that they never make a mistake.....

That's all this was, a mistake. I suggest both of the above worry about something really important instead of playing "Gotcha" with the US Army.

Be thankful there are people willing to step up and defend your freedom of speech through service in the US Army and the other branches.

If you want a case in contrast, travel to Venezuela and try writing something unflattering about that government. Bet you won't get an apology for inaccuracy as they lock you away in the nearest dungeon.

How many people currently serve active duty in the US Army? Out of that number, how many active duty Army personnel have been killed in combat in Iraq? I think it's a fairly small number...

Also, who handles the filling of prescriptions at Army hospitals? Robots? Dogs? Dolphins? No, Army personnel do...

Ben, get out of here. It's their job to hold people accountable. You'd think that the government office in charge of putting these ads out would at least check to make sure their accurate.

The Colonel even says that he doesn't have the expertise. Well, get the expertise, because you're in charge!

Let us not forget that under the Federal Trade Commission Act, advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive.

Mistake! If I made a mistake at work, I would be looking for a new job!

God Bless America and our troops.

How could this have been a simple mistake by the army? They have an entire department responsible for this stuff. And even if it WAS a mistake, they should have issued some sort of public correction and apology.

As far as Venezuela goes, Ben, you seem to imply that locking people in dungeons is the right thing for a government to do when its citizens ask questions. Don't threaten reporters looking out for the American people.

Uncle Sam said, "Ben, get out of here. It's their job to hold people accountable. You'd think that the government office in charge of putting these ads out would at least check to make sure their accurate."

That last line should have read,"... check to make sure they are accurate."

You are in charge of what you put on the internet for the world to see, if you are going to complain about a simple typo in a script, then start editing your own words more appropriately first!

This was a simple typo that some anti-military individual decided to make a federal case out of.

When the people are not smart enough to see that, then stop the world, I want to get off!

Served in two wars, overseas four times, retired with twenty plus years in the military, and continue to be proud of my service, and that of my fellow soldiers!

If it wasn't for the ignorance/laziness of the vast majority of its citizens, I would have suggested the military work like in the former USSR or Israel, where every citizen was/is required to serve time in the military. But I would not force the volunteers in today's military to have to deal with the current crybabies that could not be trusted to protect anything but their own assets.

Patrick

Dose this mean that I'm not going to be a door gunner on the Space Shuttle?

How about those 3 brand new pairs of shoes and the ride in a government car?

Please don't tell it wasn't true...

Patrick:

Thank you for your service to this country, sir.

But how do you know that the mistake in the ad was "a simple typo," especially considering that the production of Army ads is handled by one specific office of the Army?

And what "federal case" has been made of it? This article is all that I know of concerning this story.

That's exactly the exaggerated, imprecise wording the article mentions.

Your post didn't make perfect sense grammatically or otherwise, either.

Ben and Patrick,

you buffoons...it takes a six year degree to be a Pharmacist - a simple fact. Those who would put forth the notion that the Army has a six year training program to become one is LYING!!! It's that simple. If you don't know (or don't want to know) your product don't sell it on false pretense.

Now both of you, stop being water carriers for a failed administration and an Army caught in the middle. Go back and listen to Limbaugh and Hannity and drool in your spitoons.

i am just wondering about the poor kids that signed up with the army to become a pharmacist/health care technician.

Do they have the option to leave the army without being penalized?

chakie

sorry, we're not as liberal as you zeke.

"sorry, we're not as liberal as you zeke."

Posted by: marinesniper | Jun 22, 2007 9:59:53 PM

Actually Snippy, I'm a lifelong registered Republican.

Got anything relevant to add to the discussion?

You are apparently another "believer" who cannot see the forrest for the trees. That's sad.

The Army is in desparate straights to fill billets. It has people who are responsible for oversseing their privatized advertising campaigns. Do you honestly believe they don't know truth from fiction when it comes to what they are asking others to sell on their behalf?

It looks like the Army et al. just tend to take after their commanders-in-chief; they will tend to say whatever they need to (whether it is true or not) to do what they are trying to do. Bush and co. have been doing this since they got in office, now we just see the lies filtered down to the lower level. It is ironic that our country can have so many problems with military hospitals, and now they try to seduce people into the service with the promise of med tech jobs. Ridiculous.

Seems like a mistake to me. Nowadays, most people are too cowardly to lie directly but stupid enough to make mistakes.

Reply to Patrick:
First, thank you for your long service in the military. I'm grateful to anyone who serves in any branch of the military.
That being said, maybe it's been too long since you had that first talk with the recruiter! My husband was in the Navy for 4, my uncle for 6, and of course I know a lot of people who have enlisted in different brances of the military. They all have one similar experience with the recruiting office: they were blatantly lied to. The recruiter often says whatever he/she has to in order to sign that body up! Think back, and I'm willing to bet you remember a similar experience. My point is, the military does "engage in misinformation" on a regular basis. That's called "lying" in civilian terms.

This is nothing new to the Army. They have been following this pattern of misinformation in job discriptions for years. I myself was a victim of this continuos scam by the Army of lying or just not changing MOS disciptions for fear noone would sign up. I doubt seriously if they will ever change their practices. The Col. that said he couldn't keep track of the 150, come on thats not that many. As long as they are allowed to operate this way unchecked they will.