Army National Guard to use social media, new 'Moments' campaign, to seek new recruits

Red Dirt Report ^ | April 8, 2010 | Andrew W. Griffin

[SoonerStorm09]

OKLAHOMA CITY -- With social media websites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace being utilized by so many people in 2010, the Army National Guard recognized these sites and communications methods as avenues to reach potential recruits, according to a new campaign launched this week by the Army Guard.

Called "Moments of Pride," the new campaign, which is a video that uses already public Facebook photos and hometown information, creates a "uniquely personalized video experience, putting them in a real-l;ife National Guard soldier scenario."

Curious about this, your Red Dirt Reporter went to www.nationalguard.com/momentsofpride and went through the scenario. While we did not customize the experience - a flood scenario with a "state of emergency" having been announced - via Facebook, which is an option, you do type in your first and last name - Andrew Griffin, in my case - and hometown and state - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, along with my gender. I went through the short video which starts off with a text message from "Taylor Johnson" asking me what I did for the weekend.

[FrankR]

I joined. I served my four years. But anyone who would join up under this commander in chief should have his/her head examined.

obama is recruiting his "brownshirts" to enforce his communism on America. LIke the civil war, it will be Americans against Americans.

What a shame we were too stupid to learn the first time.

[AbnSarge]

...because when I got into a house during a blizzard (1996) and was able to get the 82-year old woman with the broken hip out and to the hospital, it really didn’t matter who the president was.

On these last blizzards, I was a little too senior to be running the HUMMWVs around, but my guys did some pretty spectacular work. Next state over (WV), a couple of Guardsmen got within 3 miles of the house with the newborn and mother where the power went out, made themselves snowshoes out of pine branches and clothesline and humped the three miles up the ridge and got them out to safety. Again, doesn’t matter who the president is.

[cizinec]

That’s why I joined last year. Too many of my buddies in the Reserves were going to Afghanistan and Iraq while I sat around complaining about politics. I joined the Guard simply because I wanted to be able to help my local community as much as the international.