{"id":28832,"date":"2012-02-22T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28832"},"modified":"2012-02-22T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T12:17:30","slug":"navy-hopes-act-of-valor-attracts-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28832","title":{"rendered":"Navy hopes “Act of Valor” attracts recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is pretty ridiculous. While thousands of sailors got their pink slips in the last few months, the Navy says they hope that the release of the SEAL movie “Act of Valor” will attract new recruits says the Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“It was initially started as a recruiting film so we could help recruit minorities into the teams,” [Adm. Bill McRaven] explained. He said he didn’t think the film gave anything away to the enemy, nor would it put in danger the SEALs who starred in it.<\/p>\n

McRaven told a Washington audience recently that he’d signed up for special operations forces after seeing the 1968 John Wayne film, “The Green Berets,” and that he had worked on the movie “Raise the Titanic” as a young ensign, also to drive recruitment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, with the military drawing down to pre-World War II levels, I don’t know how much the SEALs will need a recruiting video. The only ranks I think it will swell are the ranks of phonies who don’t want to bother with all of that bullshit qualification stuff and will go straight to Ranger Joe’s to buy the badges. Maybe the Navy should get a piece of that action instead of hoping for the flood of supermen in recruiting offices.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll be watching the movie as soon as it gets near the TAH mountain retreat, but I don’t think it’ll attract the people to the military that they’re hoping for.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a link sent to us by Tman from the Montreal Gazette<\/a>, SEALs seem to approve of the movie;<\/p>\n

“We first set out make an action movie with actors, but once we were immersed inside the SEALs community, we realized how deep the brotherhood goes,” said McCoy. “The only way to pay tribute to these guys was to use real SEALs doing what they do.”<\/p>\n

Actors Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez, Nestor Serrano and Emilio Rivera star in the movie, while several SEALs veterans – who are not named in the credits – played themselves.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Old Trooper sent us a link yesterday<\/a> which quoted Roslyn Sanchez, one of my little brown girl crushes, on working with the SEALs in the movie;<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat surprised me was how unaffected and cool they were,” Sanchez told FOX411\u2019s Pop Tarts column of the SEALs. “Here they were doing a Hollywood movie and it wasn\u2019t a big deal, they went along for the ride, they did their thing and they were incredible. I didn\u2019t see any diva behavior. It was new for me to work with guys that even if they were waiting around for eight hours and didn\u2019t have a trailer, they were content. It was refreshing.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big surprise, huh? Working with real people is easier than working with those homos in Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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