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Recruitment tool for the military


Boy, it was really obvious in the season finale that American Grit was a thinly-veiled recruitment tool for the military. All that was missing was having John Cena come out in an Uncle Sam costume in the end, look at the camera, point and say, "America needs you!"

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Hopefully we will get an increase in stronger recruits who were motivated by people like those who actually pushed themselves in this competition who are up for the challenge rather than so many of the current recruits who quit early on, who complain all the time at the first sign of hard work, and/or who have weak hearts, minds, or bodies and ride profiles their entire first (and only) enlistment straight out of training.

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I didn't see anything in the credits saying the show was sponsored or endorsed by the Department of Defense. Ergo, it wasn't an official recruitment tool. John Cena just wanted to do something patriotic. Anything wrong with that?

And even if the DoD was involved: so what?

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