Our Tax Dollars at Work: Military Propaganda Films Shown on United Airlines Flights

I dunno which is worse, United showing these propaganda films without labeling them as such to unsuspecting passengers OR having to sit through a Tom Cruise movie in flight. But I really hate that our tax dollars are used for this crap.

From the Chicago Tribune:

United Airlines has begun showing an in-flight video about military glamor jobs that was produced and funded by the Department of Defense--a fact passengers do not learn from watching it.

Sandwiched between NBC sitcoms and Discovery Channel previews, "Today's Military," as the 13-minute program is called, highlights five jobs that few members of the armed forces could point to as their own.

While hundreds of thousands of men and women serve overseas, many in dangerous places, the video only explicitly shows one soldier beyond U.S. borders: a Hawaii-based Army animal-care specialist doing humanitarian work in Thailand.

Do they think that people will hop up in the middle of the flight and ask for their nearest recruiter?