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Can you be friends with a branch of your government's military?

Stamped: 11:12 AM

It's a good day for the blog. I checked my email around 11 this morning. I had one. It was from the Marine Corp. Here it is.

Hi Andrew,

United States Marines would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.

By accepting United States Marines as your friend, you will be able to send United States Marines personal messages, view United States Marines's photos and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!


Click the following link to view United States Marines's profile and accept or reject this user as your friend:
http://www1.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=1&id=E2DC6610-BD1C-4ACD-81F2-FA1EB8794BDD


Now, I immediately had several thoughts flood my brain.

First...I wish I had the tape of the initial meeting when some corporal in the PR department at the Marines said "Eureka! Everyone knows we need to attract 18-30 year old males to come fight in this war and be all they can be. I know where to look...MySpace! We'll create a profile and ask them to accept us as their friend. Once we become friends we can ask them to enlist! It's fool proof!"

Second...This has got to be a joke.

Third...This isn't a joke.

Fourth...I've got to approve them! They could come hunt me down, stab me, etc.

So I approved them and visited their page.

You might find this little tidbit interesting...

United States Marines's Details
Status: Single
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Let me disclaim this post (for Vac). I am in no way belittling the Marine Corp...I'm simply stunned that they have a MySpace page.

Enjoy.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&
friendid=124413513

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  • Anonymous Anonymous says so:
    January 10, 2007 at 12:18 PM  

    wow. That is FANtastic. The military on myspace! That is just strange on so many levels...

    You know, if I were unemployed, I would spend lots of time blogging, and doing crafts. Your wife loves gifts, maybe you can wittle her something, or paint some ceramic geese for the front yard. Just an idea.... top

  • Blogger Rachel says so:
    January 10, 2007 at 1:48 PM  

    That is pretty amazing. I love that you accepted their invitation. You are screwing up their success ratios as we type. I wonder how many recruits a year will come from MySpace. I'd like to know the stats on that.

    I agree with AMO you could wittle me something -- or build me a chair of antlers. top

  • Blogger AP says so:
    January 10, 2007 at 2:09 PM  

    I will blog on that chair of antlers very soon...and then i will give you one for your birthday. top

  • Blogger stevie says so:
    January 10, 2007 at 11:22 PM  

    That last paragraph of yours made me SICK. No disclaimers, man. I mean, come on. If somebody's going to give you a hard time for making a snide remark about the marines, they can kiss it.

    Hey tough guy marines! Hey war lovers! Hey masculinity cartoons! What's up? (see you at MySpace.) top

  • Blogger AP says so:
    January 10, 2007 at 11:49 PM  

    I added the diclaimer after posting as I was thinking about my roommate in college who is now leading an infantry division in Iraq right now. It stays (but I have NO problem letting the USMC know how ridiculous their MySpace page is). "See you at MySpace" did make me laugh,though... top