Imagine that.
Doesn’t anybody with any sense of history think about these things? Mein gott. What’s next, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, the official slogan of Leavenworth?
I’m not much for criticism of my service, but come ON! This is a bit ridiculous, and even without the historical appreciation it’s a bit lame compared to “Aim High”, wouldn’t you agree? I think so, anyway.
Dude.
Combine this with the wierd comeback of the term “Homeland,” and the odd habit rightwing talk types have of using the word “Folk” in a singularly non-English-standard way, and you have a thoroughly substantiated conspiracy theory on your hands.
-FrL-
It’s a recipe for disaster if the air force is above all and the army is aiming high!
I think Arbeit Macht Fries is patented by McDonalds.
Come now, surely you don’t distrust the Committee for State…uh, I mean, the Department of Homeland Security?
It sounds like there’s been quite a few changes since I was in the USAF, (1971-1975.) On my re-enlistment physical (of all things) they found a pretty serious heart defect, making me an involuntary first-termer.
But Feldmarschall Moseley himself approved the new motto.
Holy shit. I just had to click on this to check it wasn’t Airman saying that. Didn’t seem like him, so it’s a relief.
It’s a shame to see Australian Defence Force ads going back to this sort of claptrap too. I miss the days when the RAN had the best ever (IMHO) recruitment slogan ever, working on multiple levels, and not offensive to either left, right, or anybody else:
“You’ll be wet, homesick, and frightened.”
Homesick? For Australia?
That’s a bootable offence!
You guys ever sober up, you’ll learn to spell.
You’re going straight to Heil for that one 
Youi first.
I have a new slogan for the air force:
“Come get high with us!”
So your new username would be Flugkapitan or summink 
I know you meant this in jest, and I don’t hold it against you or anything, but please bear in mind that my wife is Jewish, and by extension my son (since the Jewish ethnicity is considered matrilinear), so that sort of implication makes me VERY uncomfortable. This is one of the reasons that it so disturbed me that I felt the need to start a thread criticizing it.
Are you aware that the Deutschlandlied (often known as “Deutschland Ueber Alles”) is not a Nazi anthem? Are you aware that it has been the German national anthem since the days of the Weimar Republic, long before the Nazis took power? Are you aware that it is still the German national anthem? Are you aware that that refrain “Deutschland Ueber Alles” doesn’t refer to German domination?
As far as pittings go, this ranks as one of the lamest and most ill-informed.
Are you aware that nobody gives a shit?
I propose “Above the Best.”
Please send me my check.
I thought Hitler was big on calling Germany the Fatherland, not the Homeland. Have I been wrong all this time?