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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for posting the WWII recruiting video Looney Toons): Rookie Revue from 1941 which was a Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.
In 1941 the "Suicide Squad (a trio of depressed soldiers) was censored. It is interesting in this day when suicide is a concern that it restored.

"Plot
A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard. The camouflage troops march by, invisibly. We see training substitutes: wooden guns, cars marked "tank" and, alas, a banner marked "parachute" deployed in mid-jump. More training: aerial games (of tic-tac-toe). The anti-aircraft division has target practice, on an aerial shooting gallery. Finally, in an elaborate process, a general provides firing instructions to a big gun; when it hits his own building, he says, "I'm a baaad general."

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In a series of mess hall gags, the shot of the Suicide Squad (a trio of depressed soldiers) unhappily eating hash from a bowl (as well as the narrator's line at the end of the shot "And so, their appetites appeased, the army is ready to carry out the orders of the day") is cut on the rare times on Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang have aired the cartoon."
https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Rookie_Revue

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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Excellent video share Chief.
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
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Love it!!
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