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Originally Posted by Targan
Strange, I hear about that sort of thing on a regular basis. It is quite common for the local media here in Perth to report on USN and USMC personnel on leave from ships berthed in Fremantle Port volunteering to assist in local worthy causes (such as cleaning up after a major bushfire last year). Or ADF personnel helping with disaster relief following the massive floods and fires in the Eastern States over the past few years. Is the US media so different?
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It is most likely a US issue, for the most part, the media does not report favorably on the military. There is far more coverage of a GI that rapes a woman in Iraq then there ever is about all of the hospitals and schools that GIs built in Iraq. If there is a national diaster, such as Hurricane Katrina are the Midwest Floods, you will see coverage of National Guard efforts, but it is almost always curt at best (especially from the national media; local media tends to be a bit more open).
But then there is a running joke that the press hates the military and the military hates them right back.