Canadian Armed Forces Commercial 1980

[Ecossaise]

Awesome! I have had this tune in my head off and on for at least the past 25 years!

[Dusty2K6]

I love how we have the same class of ship in that video still today...

[DodgeMan360]

The technology they used was SO advanced, that they still use it today!! .... wait a minute

[flightrulez]

Man, our navy STILL uses those seakings...sad...isn't it...

[1988scottcarey]

hey man the royal canadian navy is kick ass

[Chookiman]

Canada should invest in some Nuclear Weapons.

[AEigner]

@Chookiman we used to, up until the 80's I think.

[Chookiman]

@AEigner I think..... yer wrong pal. unless

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau sent them to Commie China !!! ... in that case we should buy em back......way cheaper then an x-35. I already pay enough fkn Tax.

[AEigner]

@Chookiman I checked wiki to confirm my suspicions. Apparently, we did actually maintain a stockpile of AIR-2A Genie air-to-air nuclear rockets until 1984. As well as MGR-1 surface to surface rockets fitted with the US W31 warhead, operated by the 4 Mechanized Brigade Group in West Germany until 1970.

[BaconTV123]

Fuck the navy go army

[originalnab]

LMAO I love how at the end of the commercial it goes on to show a hockey game.

[mrsmithdude]

OMG.... I remember these ads when I was kid !!! Guess they worked on me cause here I am age 34 still serving in the Army... LOL

[kevstagino]

@mrsmithdude im joining soon whats a good job? i cant decide

[mrsmithdude]

@kevstagino Think of your personal interests in life. Mechanics....electronics....wa­nna be out in the bush all the time.....like boats....like planes...There is many trades in the CF and quite a few relate to normal civilian jobs even. They are all good. You just need to read about them on the recruiting website they get into detail on each trade. Hope that helps.

[NapalmSabbathChains]

We still have those Sea King choppers!! hahaha



[athlon866]

wow, that's pretty classic. were they using 2nd hand british ships?

[athlon866]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to defame CF. I'm just not happy with the fact that most 2nd hand stuff from brits cost us a lot to repair. It's just not ethical to sell defect products.

[LacrosseKidd4]

@athlon866 I do agree though, but the only thing that was 2nd was the submarines and it was only one that caught fire on the way to Canada.

[Altare216]

its funny to live in a country that gives so much to third world nations, but has to have a bake sale to buy a bomber :) lol jk jk. Canada is great

[denmandiver]

SeaKing! Flying yesterdays aircraft tommorrow! Amazing what the CF airframes techs can do with bailing wire and gun-tape!

[bobdole92]

NO lie that the Seaking showed in that commercial is still in service today lmao

[CanadaguyRudey]

WAS that Seaking crashing?

[Charles069]

Most of the RCN, RCAF, and Canadian Army had high expectations with unification. They were disappointed and left. My sister had a pilots license and tried to join Air Command when this commercial came out, but females were not allowed to be pilots at that time.

Cheers, Army Brats

[gibson22varcelone]

During WWII

Hitler: Ho, ho, we got the allies on the run! Nothing can stop us now!

Mussolini: Oh no...we sure are in trouble now...HERE COMES CANADA! O_O

[MyndPhreakFilmz]

@gibson22varcelone LOL!

[BigJoey0324]

I never joined the military because 1) I was disabled, and 2) I'd probably get life in front of a firing squad for insubordination or something. This jingle was attention getting, if nothing else.

[BigJoey0324]

I met the guy who clamins to have sung this. It was one man's voice doubled and redoubled to make it sound like a whole group. I don't think he was lying to me ... he was a United Church minister.  Would they lie????

[XtremeEuph]

Thats cool! haha

[kevinh89]

Hahahaha! Its a fucking sea king from an 80's recruiting video!

[imhungry493]

and there still in todays recruitment vids haha :P

[Solechnaya]

Wow... I'm not quite sure what to say about this.

[dubla345]

thats commercial is horrible

[cf80to01]

Well, if you were in the CF you would have to agree... there is definitely NO life like it!

[KaRma2121]

@cf80to01 i'm about to join.....what's it like? im curious i want to be an electronic technician or electronic optronic.

[Pierretactical007]

dont know why everybody bashes those subs, they are actually quite advanced in technology, the probleme is that they were in storage for 3 or 4 years and when they were bought, they didnt take enough money, time, etc to bring them back to operational status, its like everything else with the goverment when it comes to defense purchases, takes way too long, ushually by the time we buy something and get, the next best thing is already on the market

[GribMurder]

"There's no life life it"....jesus..... I thought our commercials from today were cheesy.

[Apachecatdog]

I can almost taste the cheese...

[jimmyphack]

the maritime fleet is big now isnt it?

[Jimderkaisser]

Maritime fleet was big..but today nop...because Chrétien and all Liberal shit reduice on canadian forces..like the projet to built 12x nuclear submarin for buy second hand cheap british sub.

[Neville6000]

I don't support what the CAF is doing in Afghanistan, but at the same time, that was a very stupid thing to do, indeed.

[8223Studios]

i dont understand?

[Neville6000]

I was agreeing with Jimderkaisser about the reduction in the Royal Canadian Navy's ship capacity, and the scrapping of the nuclear submarine program due to certain people in government. Canada needed those subs to patrol the parts of Canada that are in dispute.

[8223Studios]

yeah i agree too

[Thanato26]

When did we scrap Nuclear submarines?

~Thanato

[Neville6000]

Five years ago, IIRC.

[Thanato26]

In the late 1980s Their was plans for Canada to Purchase/Build 10-12 Nuclear attack submarines to patrol the arctic waters. However in 1989 the plans were canceled when the Budget was cut.

~Thanato

[Breakerchase]

@Thanato26

Any more info on this???

[cf80to01]

Thanato... did you hear anything about a move to combine the Sig Op/LCIS and Comm Research?

[kartman13]

Then who obvisouly don't know what NATO is.

[Jimderkaisser]

This pub are so cheap Lol but long live canadian forces

[syea99]

dude what a shitty comercial lol

[mrceleb2006]

This was taken from a CBC "Hockey Night in Canada" telecast, as I can tell, eh!

[cbau338]

Theres no life, like it!

[AdamDiddy]

Kill me.

Adam

[ebbets1965]

Brings back memories. Looked for a airworthy Sea King helicopter but they were probably on retrofit # 22 at the time.

[charger223]

we still use the same equipment too!

[M0D1CA]

hahaha

[mrceleb2006]

I remember this jingle very well.