C'mon Kids!!!! Let's go to Army World!!!

[ScreamingMeemie]

:puke: :puke: :puke:

MrG just stopped me in the middle of making dinner to watch this on CNN. It's on their website as well...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/08/military.theme.park.ap/ :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:


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FORT BELVOIR, Virginia (AP) -- The Army is considering a proposal to allow a private developer to build a military-themed park that would include Cobra Gunship rides and bars including a "1st Division Lounge."

Military officials said a massive entertainment and hotel complex built next to a national Army museum could draw more than 1 million people a year. But authorities in Fairfax County are objecting because of already traffic-clogged roads surrounding the proposed site.


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"You can command the latest M-1 tank, feel the rush of a paratrooper freefall, fly a Cobra Gunship or defend your B-17 as a waist gunner," according to the proposal, which was obtained by The Washington Post.

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Gee! Golly! Do they get to feel what it's like to load up body bags? Step over dead civilians? Hmmmm... I wonder.


What. The. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. This. Country? <<<rhetorical

[MissB]

1. I can't imagine that would be a good idea.

Just the whole security thing should prevent it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. This is, apparently, what the county is saying...

And the Army has basically told them to F off... from the newscast on it. Who in their right mind would find this to be a good idea? :shrug:

[Rex]

2. So will they have the 'armless, legless' GI attraction?

Will they build a stage with body parts and sound recordings of people screaming in pain? Will little Johnny get to shoot a swarthy person with real bullets? What the fuck happened to my country?

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I don't know... I thought it was a joke at first.

:(

At the air shows the Army already has a ride simulator to draw kids in. :(

[butterfly77]

3. This is the brainwashing of the newest recruits for all ....

of the wars bush is starting.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. It never ends...

I wonder what the decor is going to be? Sand? temples? :(

[gratuitous]

5. Do patrons get to go through the "don't ask don't tell" gate?

Have to weed out the . . . you know.

This is just flat wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to begin. As if there isn't enough glorification of the military and redemptive violence in our day-to-day society as it is.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. It is freakishly wrong.

I wonder if they will offer a twofer to "Holyland" or whatever it is called. :(

[demigoddess]

6. Just another monument to the glory of war. This time for kids.

Are they going to show how the military members have to have second jobs to afford food for their kids? ( my military dad used his vacation time to work construction) and how it is to be away from home months on end?( my dad was home three months, gone three months, etc. one year) and how about the 24 hours shifts at some jobs. ON top of that, they will lie to you about training and opportunity in the future. :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. They will show only the glory I am sure...

The pilots! The pretty dress Blues! The Swords!! :( No reality...only smoke and mirrors, just like the fun house.

[PA Democrat]

7. Yes, but do they have a ride that simulates getting blown up by an IED

while riding in an unarmored Humvee?

How about a ride that simulates feeding yourself with a prosthetic arm?

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Somehow I doubt it will be so realistic as that.

:(

[Dead_Parrot]

8. What's this ride called, mummy?

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. That always blows me away...

...the sight of that. :(

[Warren DeMontague]

12. You know, if people all over the globe would just enjoy that instead

of the real thing, I wouldn't have a problem with it.

At least, the ones who can't sublimate those urges into Soccer, Football, or Pro Wrestling.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I doubt that will ever be though...

In the words of PigBoy Rush... so many believe, "You can't have Peace without WAR, Buddy" :puke:

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Yeah, that makes sense.

...To someone high on handfuls of Oxycontin, perhaps.

[jmowreader]

13. This is a GREAT idea. Y'all just don't know how to USE it!

They need to build four gates at Army World: the "I've Already Been In The Army" gate, the "I Support The Soldier But Not The War" gate, the "I Support The War Wholeheartedly" gate, and the "I'm Under 21 Gate."

If you go through the first gate, you get to spend a pleasant day firing M-60 machineguns (and an even more fun night knowing someone ELSE has to clean the fucking things!), going through a confidence course, eating good Army chow, rappelling, then dining and drinking at the NCO Open Mess while swapping war stories with your fellow veterans. All the fun things the Army has to offer, and all in a big building like Ski Dubai so you don't get rained on--range day in the rain always sucked, we all know that.

Going through the second gate lets you spend the day making CARE Packages for our troops overseas, writing letters of support to Cindy Sheehan, mourning our brave soldiers who paid the ultimate price for Bush's stupidity, and spending time at an antiwar protest. Everything that makes a soldier-supporting antiwar activist happy.

The fourth gate is kinda like the first, except you can't have beer at the end of the day.

But it's a different story if you pass through the third gate. First, you get to take the Infantry Challenge Ride, where you go through an obstacle course with an M-16 loaded with live ammunition and assault pop-up targets. Then there's the Artillery Challenge Ride, where you see how fast you can put a howitzer round together and load it into the gun. The Cavalry Challenge Ride will let you test your skills at observation, and the Combat Support Specialist Ride lets you change tires, pump gas, plot information on maps, carry litters, and lots of other things that combat support soldiers do. Then there's the Meet a Bad Used Car Salesman Ride, where an actor portraying an Army recruiter helps you fill out lots and lots of fun paperwork, just like real soldiers do! There's the Enlistment Physical Ride, which is what it sounds like, the MEPS Station Ride, where you tell them the ride you liked the best, and the Oath of Enlistment Ride, where you raise your right hand, just like real soldiers do, and swear to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Finally, there's the Travel Briefing Ride and the Bus To Basic Ride.

While you're sitting on the real-looking bus waiting for the Bus To Basic Ride to start, a man in a campaign hat boards the bus and informs everyone on it that there's been a "terrible mistake," and Real Army Paperwork was used instead of the cheap imitations they're "supposed" to use. Oh yeah, and since the actor who plays the lieutenant colonel who administers the oath of enlistment called in sick today we used an actual lieutenant colonel in his place. And, unfortunately, since anyone who signs Real Army Paperwork and swears a Real Army Oath of Enlistment is, by federal law, Really In The Army, they might want to call in sick from work for the next four years and kiss their families goodbye because the bus is leaving for Fort Jackson in 20 minutes.

There are ways to solve any problem. You just have to look for them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Some will laugh at me but, when my daughter was in Civil Air

Patrol, I would read the fine print on her renewal form each year... to make sure she wasn't somehow signing herself into service once she became of age. I put nothing past this administration.

[lectrobyte]

24. I second that. You are a genius.

[cynatnite]

14. The military has been kicking this around for a while...

They were talking about it in 1990 when I was in. At Ft. Ord they did this every year. They will set up obstacle courses, rappelling, helicopter rides and target practice(if they have the facilities close by)and more. It would be a day with soldiers and their families. It was almost like a carnival type of thing and it was a lot of fun.

The military thinks they can make money off of it and from what I've seen, they probably could.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. When we worked the Air Show at Selfridge every year, the Navy

would bring this ridiculous simulation ride of flying with the Blue Angels... Anything to draw them in. :(

[longship]

15. Remember Arlo Guthrie: "I wanna *kill*."

Army: "You're our boy!!"

[ScreamingMeemie]

22. ...

:(

[DRoseDARs]

25. UPDATE: Army rejects military theme park idea

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060808/ap_on_re_us/military_theme_park

Army rejects military theme park idea

By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 8, 4:43 PM ET

McLEAN, Va. - The Army shot down a developer's proposal Tuesday to build a military theme park on a Virginia Army base that would feature rides that allow visitors to "command the latest M-1 tank" and "feel the rush of a paratrooper freefall."

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"That proposal ... was dead on arrival, and will be dead on arrival if resubmitted," said Keith Eastin, the Army's assistant secretary for installations and environment.

Eastin said the Army is willing to consider some type of "visitor destination concept" to go with the museum, but it would have to be done "in a tasteful and appropriate manner."

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[Blue_Tires]

26. i didn't think it was ever a good idea

least of all from the proposed location....the roads are already a mess in that area