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US airforce online ad theme: 'Horror Meets Comedy'

Emo

May the 

Joke

Schwartz be with you..

Mike Moyle

Errrmmm--- 

Coat

"...(an) exclusive opportunity for the Air Force to engage with our target audience,"

An unfortunate choice of words, surely...!

Anonymous Coward

Just that one? 

Black Helicopters

How about the war in Bosnia when they shot HARMs at civilian radars in neighbouring non-combatant countries every time a beam glanced anywhere near them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/331127.stm

Or the Chinese embassy "mishap"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1999/oct/17/balkans

Pete mcQuail

flying killer drones operating overseas by remote control 

Black Helicopters

Why not just let the ordinary X-Box players do the dirty work - a highly skilled self motivated workforce like that would save a fortune in training.

Bill Gould

How about... 

Gates Halo

They change the tagline to "The USAF: Bunch of fucktards" or a Waldo series of books where some hillbilly general is looking for his lost nukes on every page.

Asshats.

Oninoshiko

they fell asleep.. and i care why 

Flame

I mean really? If the guys with the button are asleep I'm happy. It's when they are awake entering in those codes I start to worry!

That would be the icon show our planet after they needed to be awake...

Anonymous Coward

In other news 

Coat

OS Card was asked by the military and Microsoft to provide design input for their new Game and social networking site: Senders Universe. Xenophobics need not apply.

ian

Norty? 

On the "horror meets comedy" theme:

"Nuke'em all, let God sort'em out", and the ever popular "Nuke'em 'til they glow, then shoot'em in the dark".

Iam Me

Some days 

Joke

You get quality material like this and the jokes just write themselves.

Joke icon cus that's what the USAF is making itself look like with antics like this.

David Wiernicki

What the hell? 

Did somebody from the Marines get a USAF guy drunk and feed him these ideas, or what?

Pascal Monett

@Pete mcQuail 

Highly skilled ? Do you know how many n00bs crash their plane on take-off in BF1942 and BF2 ? After shooting one of their teammates in the back to get in it first ?

Some are good, of course, some are very, very good. But the majority couldn't pilot their way across the Channel in a straight line.

Training will still be needed, and very much needed.