"This is the sound of an AK-47 being fired at you."

[UdoKier]

I ***HATE*** this ad. The narrator sounds like G. Gordon Liddy. I assume they are politically the good guys, but the commercial gives me a MIGRAINE!

AAR! Please ask them to make a less annoying ad!

[deadmessengers]

1. I think it's Jesse Ventura n/t

[UdoKier]

2. Shoulda known.

So it's a bunch of libertarian/independent/anti-government types...

[Stew225]

3. I, too, had heard that it's Jesse Ventura. eom

[whistle]

4. No link?

[fob]

5. Did you go to the website the ad directs you to?

www.optruth.com

Read some of the reports of soldiers that earned Purple Hearts, like this one;

Spc. Robert Acosta, 20, from Santa Ana, California, an ammunitions specialist with the 1st Armored Divison, was in a humvee near Baghdad International Airport July 13, 2003, when a grenade was thrown into his vehicle. In the explosion he lost his right hand and the use of his left leg. This story can also be found in Purple Hearts, a book by Nina Berman, and is available on this website.



Yeah I got a purple heart. I don't care. No soldier wants a purple heart. I'll tell you that much. No soldier wants it. Awards don't mean nothing to me. I don't need anything to prove I was there. I know I was there. I got a constant reminder.

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Sorry about the giant image, anyone know how to shrink it?


Edit: Here's another story from same site;

Cpl Tyson Johnson III, 22, from Prichard, Alabama, a mechanic with 205 Military Intelligence brigade, was injured in a mortar attack on the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad on September 20, 2003. He suffered massive internal injuries and is 100 percent disabled. This story can also be found in Purple Hearts, a book by Nina Berman, and is available on this website.

Well, uh, shrapnel down the back, shrapnel that came in and hit my head, punctured my lungs. I broke both of my arms. I lost a kidney. My intestines was messed up. They took an artery out of my left leg and put it into this right arm. They pretty much took my life. Pretty much.


I got a bonus in the National Guards for joining the Army. Now I've got to pay the bonus back and it's $2999. If I would have continued and finished my contract I wouldn't have to pay it back. The Guard wants it back. It's on my credit that I owe them that. I'm burning on the inside. I'm burning."

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Who supports the troops? bush*, you sir are a fucker.

[scottcsmith]

6. That's a line from "Heartbreak Ridge"

Clint Eastwood's flick from the mid-1980s where he played a gruffy old-school Marine assigned to train a bunch of slackers to be Marines. In one scene Eastwood fires an AK-47 at his troops and tells them that's what the gun sounds like.

Here's a bit of trivia: I served as a journalist in the U.S. Navy, and my first duty station was for the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet public affairs office at Pearl Harbor. "Public affairs" is basically the military equivalent of a PR firm. Anyway, one of the things we were responsible for was decisions regarding the use of military bases, personnel and equipment in movies. We turned down Eastwood's request for assistance on "Heartbreak Ridge" because the head of public affairs felt the script portrayed Marines in a negative way -- the main complaint was all of the swearing in the script, which was pretty funny since everyone I knew in the military swore like, well, sailors.

The only film I helped out with was "Flight of the Intruder." Since I was the junior guy in the office, my task was to pick up a prop used in the movie. Other people in my office got to be extras! It just wasn't fair.

We also approved the request by Cher to film her music video "If I Could Turn Back Time" on the Missouri, and the brass were horrified at the outcome of the video (because of Cher's outfits).

[Blue_Tires]

8. "it's the preferred weapon of your enemy

and it makes a very distinctive sound when fired...remember it"

[TahitiNut]

9. Funny thing is ... it does.

When I saw "Heartbreak Ridge" in the theater, it creeped me out to hear it. A little vuja de for the kid. :shrug:

That's part of why "Saving Private Ryan" was tough to watch. The sounds were closer than most.

[Bandit]

7. Haven't seen or heard the ad but am quite familar with the sound

I think it is a hard sound to forget. It truly is a distinctive sound. The sound of FEAR. Not quite as bad as the sound of Shrapnel though. That one is mind numbing FEAR.

[TahitiNut]

10. Yup. Incomig rockets have a sound .. and the sound of impact

... followed (if you're unlucky enough to be close) by the sound of shrapnel and debris is hard to forget.

I have one particularly vivid image of waiting for gravity to get its ass in gear as I just seemed to float and descend ever so slowwwwwllyyy after diving for the dirt when a round hit about 50-75 yards from me. I was running across an open field as I began my dive for the dirt when I heard the whistle/whoosh and remember flashing on ("gee, that's pretty") the phosphor spray. (That was early February 1969.)