Comments on: USAF beams with pride over an absurd cyber-terror movie http://securitycritics.org/2008/09/29/eagle-eye/ Truthful, independent criticism of the computer security industrial complex Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:26:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: jarhead1349 http://securitycritics.org/2008/09/29/eagle-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-39 jarhead1349 Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:21:28 +0000 http://securitycritics.org/?p=299#comment-39 The quote about using AF peeps on this flick is disturbing. SMSgt Aragona implies that Active Duty Airmen are the only ones who know how to walk and talk like their in the military. As a Marine Reservist who was Active Duty Marine Corps, I take offense. This whole thing looks to me like the AF is trying to get on the good PR train that the Marines have been riding for decades. Yes, we get our share of black eyes, but when Hollywood needs a hero, they make him a Marine. When the (Ch)Air Force gives due credit to the other services, and starts carrying weapons in Iraq, then I'll take them seriously. In Iraq, and elsewhere, the AF generally treats Marines and other "ground types" as cargo they don't have to palletize. The quote about using AF peeps on this flick is disturbing. SMSgt Aragona implies that Active Duty Airmen are the only ones who know how to walk and talk like their in the military. As a Marine Reservist who was Active Duty Marine Corps, I take offense.

This whole thing looks to me like the AF is trying to get on the good PR train that the Marines have been riding for decades. Yes, we get our share of black eyes, but when Hollywood needs a hero, they make him a Marine.

When the (Ch)Air Force gives due credit to the other services, and starts carrying weapons in Iraq, then I’ll take them seriously. In Iraq, and elsewhere, the AF generally treats Marines and other “ground types” as cargo they don’t have to palletize.

]]> By: jcsmith2 http://securitycritics.org/2008/09/29/eagle-eye/comment-page-1/#comment-8 jcsmith2 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:43:22 +0000 http://securitycritics.org/?p=299#comment-8 I'm not really surprised. After the recruiting commercial that showed how you (yes YOU!) could join the AF and say the world from almost certain catastrophic calamity, seeing them carry this into the movies isn't too much of a stretch. My Air Force veteran parents (dad 25 years, mom 10) wouldn't wouldn't recognize the AF now. More's the pity... I’m not really surprised. After the recruiting commercial that showed how you (yes YOU!) could join the AF and say the world from almost certain catastrophic calamity, seeing them carry this into the movies isn’t too much of a stretch.

My Air Force veteran parents (dad 25 years, mom 10) wouldn’t wouldn’t recognize the AF now. More’s the pity…

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