Join the army, get a hat!
God I hate television.

So the US Army has a new recruitment ad that has a man and his son talking after the son has returned from duty with the army. And the Dad begins monologuing to the son, saying: "When you got off that bus you did two things I've never seen before, you shook my hand and you looked me in the eye." Then he looks intently at his son and says: 'Where'd that come from?" The son then cracks an ever-so-slight-but-still-tough-and-stern smile.
This is followed by a blurb about a video one can order from the US Army that "shows all the benefits" one can incur as a soldier in the US Army. Not only are they sending out this propaganda video, but they are also offering, and I am not remotely kidding here, a free hat. What!?

If you live in that country, and the preceding is a little unsettling to you too, please feel free to come north and live in mine. We've got space.