Defense Contracts ($750 mil for advertising for Marine Corp recruiting )

[Robbien]

Source: Dept. of Defense

J. Walter Thompson, Atlanta, Ga., is being awarded an $81,588,102 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for marketing and advertising services in support of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command advertising program. This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $750,000,000. Work will be performed primarily in Atlanta, Ga., and various locations yet to be determined. Work is expected to be completed Sep. 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online site, with one proposal received.

Read more: http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3673

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Article lists many of the contracts awarded such as $17 mil for bullets used in training. Nice to have unlimited amounts of taxpayer dollars with which to play around. So many awards are no bid/one bid awards.

[cloudbase]

1. Of all the armed services,

the Marines are the one that really has no need to advertise.

[TacticalPeek]

2. I could see where it costs a lot

to track down chickenhawk Republicans and try to convince them to put their John Henry where their mouth is - a Sisyphean task.

[L0oniX]

3. More war profiteering. We haven't murdered enough women and children yet.

[saigon68]

14. Yes --Not enough islamics have been FRIED to death

By assorted Napalm and White Phosphorus ordinance.

[clarence swinney]

4. PENTAGON PORK BARREL

read
When The Pentagon Was For Sale"
Andy Pasztor

awesome

[acmavm]

5. They (the bush** admin and the military) have to steal as much of the

American people's money as they can in the time they have left.

[saigon68]

15. Gen Betrayus needs more glory and medals in The Crusade

for jayzues

[fascisthunter]

6. An Industry That Benefits from Death and Chaos

Take out the profit motive and we all will see less war.

[Owl]

7. Another extreme waste of taxpayers money.

[Robin Hood 991]

8. This has got to stop!

[unapatriciated]

9. So they want to entice more of Georgia's impoverished youths

to fight in this bloody war. We could use that money to provide health care for them instead. Maybe our Governor will hold a prayer meeting for that too.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Someone break this down for me.

How much per recruit does this work out to? How many people enlist in the Marines every year? This contract lasts for only five years, too, which really makes me wonder. Couldn't they take that much money and pay the insurgents not to place IEDs in the road?

[Auggie]

11. One proposal? That doesn't seem right...

Ad agencies would be breaking down the doors to get at that type of money.

[uberblonde]

12. When they want to fix a contract...

They simply write the specs so that no one else can meet the requirements.

[cosmicdot]

13. J. Walter Thompson (JWT) is owned by WPP ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_Group

... the same global PR perception management corporation which owns Hill & Knowlton (one of the companies which helped 'PR' public opinion for Poppy's Gulf War http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html; and, where the former Pentagon spokesperson for Rumsfield's Pentagon worked, Victoria Clarke (now at Comcast). Of course, she didn't really leave the Pentagon, she was put on the Defense Policy Board, at least, until last year. http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/dpbmembers.html

WPP, also, owns Burson-Marsteller which has been discussed here at DU (Mark Penn).

[bonzotex]

16. I saw that linked over at Kos...

This is appalling. Thanks for posting it here.

The Marines look for roughly 32,000 recruits per year. This contract, works out to $5859.37 per recruit per year for four years. Just for advertising.

[Robbien]

18. Kos lifted the article from DU, not the other way around

DU had it on Saturday afternoon. Kos picked it up on Sunday.

DU rocks.

But its all good.

[southerncross48]

17. What the Marines Are Looking For

Heroes that will shot ten year old kids trying to seek medical help at an Iraqi hospital. Remember they are doing this in your name. Christmas has been canceled in Amerika, as Christ has left the nation that kills kids!!!