National Guard recruiting pamphlets in my DVD???

[Wcross]

I went down to blockbuster to rent a couple of DVD's and when I opened them I found some recruiting information from the National Guard. I guess they are having a tough time recruiting these days, huh? Lets see now, join the guard and get sent to Iraq to become the victim of a roadside bomb or stay home and watch DVD's? Tough choice.

I filled them out under my two assumed names of "G. Bush" and D. Cheney.

[DistressedAmerican]

1. They Are Getting Desperate!

[soup]

2. wtf?

Did someone at Blockbuster slip it into the cover?

[CRK7376]

3. Advertising money

at it's best. We too in NC are finding National Guard/Army Reserve recruiting flyers in the video/DVD boxes....Desperate times call for desperate measures.....Good luck recruiters...

[onehandle]

4. Call the Blockbuster.

I'd be really curious to see if they were paid to place the ads for the military.

[soup]

5. Whoa! Not an isolated incident. Found this article-

Monday, March 21, 2005

Military recruiters have a tough battle

By Howard Wilkinson
Enquirer staff writer

Renting a video isn't a life-changing experience for most people. But for 21-year-old Thomas Purnell of Southgate, a recent trip to the video store was exactly that.

It prompted the young man - who had moved from one dead-end job to another, struggling since high school to find his place in the world - to become a soldier.

"All I did was go to Blockbuster and rent a video," Purnell said. "I opened the case - and out popped a card that said if I came to the National Guard armory, I'd get a free T-shirt and DVD. So I went."

By the time he left the Kentucky National Guard armory in Walton about six weeks ago, he not only had a free T-shirt and a DVD, he also had signed on the dotted line to become the newest member of the artillery company based there. Now, he is just days away from departing for nine weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C.

"The T-shirt offer gets them in the door," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Jones, a veteran of the Afghanistan war who heads the Kentucky Army National Guard's recruiting office in Northern Kentucky. "My job is to convince them to stay."
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050321/NEWS01/503210363/1077