SFC Stephen P.109236<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Back in 2005, I was helping a recruiter at a job fair. The local paper did a piece on it, and my picture (with an inaccurate job title) was picked up by the AP.<br><br>It was probably attractive to other outlets because the prospect we were talking to was wearing a Green Day American Idiot T-shirt.<br><br>This, comrades, is how my face wound up as representing failure of the Army's recruiting efforts.<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR</a> [login to see] 897.html<br><br>Let's hear your stories involving the media.<br><div class="pta-link-card"><br /><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/images/twp-50x50.jpg"></div><br /><div class="pta-link-card-content"><br /><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR%20%5Blogin%20to%20see%5D%20897.html">Army Aims to Catch Up on Recruits in Summer</a></div><br /><div class="pta-link-card-description">Get Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and national news. Get the latest/breaking news, featuring national security, science and courts. Read news headlines from the nation and from The Washington Post...</div><br /></div><br /><div style="clear:both;"></div><br /><div class="pta-box-hide"></div><br /></div>Who has been in the news?2014-04-23T16:34:41-04:00SFC Stephen P.109236<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Back in 2005, I was helping a recruiter at a job fair. The local paper did a piece on it, and my picture (with an inaccurate job title) was picked up by the AP.<br><br>It was probably attractive to other outlets because the prospect we were talking to was wearing a Green Day American Idiot T-shirt.<br><br>This, comrades, is how my face wound up as representing failure of the Army's recruiting efforts.<br><br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR</a> [login to see] 897.html<br><br>Let's hear your stories involving the media.<br><div class="pta-link-card"><br /><div class="pta-link-card-picture"><img src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/images/twp-50x50.jpg"></div><br /><div class="pta-link-card-content"><br /><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR%20%5Blogin%20to%20see%5D%20897.html">Army Aims to Catch Up on Recruits in Summer</a></div><br /><div class="pta-link-card-description">Get Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland and national news. Get the latest/breaking news, featuring national security, science and courts. Read news headlines from the nation and from The Washington Post...</div><br /></div><br /><div style="clear:both;"></div><br /><div class="pta-box-hide"></div><br /></div>Who has been in the news?2014-04-23T16:34:41-04:002014-04-23T16:34:41-04:00SFC Private RallyPoint Member109538<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I made the Bolivian newspaper when I attended a diplomatic reception at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Bolivia.Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2014 9:40 PM2014-04-23T21:40:24-04:002014-04-23T21:40:24-04:00SSG Jeffrey Spencer109542<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Sacramento Bee did a special interest article on me back in 1993 when I won the area salsa contest. I went to Reno for the International Salsa contest and placed 8th.Response by SSG Jeffrey Spencer made Apr 23 at 2014 9:45 PM2014-04-23T21:45:47-04:002014-04-23T21:45:47-04:00SGT Private RallyPoint Member109601<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was lucky.<br /><br />Just this month i was quated at a local news paper after 16 people from my unit (including myself) returend successfully from the bataaon bataan memorial that's MarchResponse by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2014 10:54 PM2014-04-23T22:54:30-04:002014-04-23T22:54:30-04:00MCPO Private RallyPoint Member109663<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was the Coast Guard spokesman for probably three dozen televised news reports, another 60-80 print articles, and a couple of "in depth" interviews: one for being the Coastie Liaison at the Air Force Senior NCO Academy, and another for an upcoming deployment (back in 2002).<br><br>I'm glad I already knew how the media worked - the worst I got was a great big drip of snot coming out of my nose during a major ship grounding on Long Island, NY, when it was 10 degrees and gale-force winds. My entire face was numb, and the reporter insisted on getting the interview with the grounded ship in the background. Bad choice on my part.<br>Response by MCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 12:05 AM2014-04-24T00:05:04-04:002014-04-24T00:05:04-04:00PO3 Candace Gracik110341<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I was the leader of a Culinary Arts team in the Coast Guard in 2009 were we won first place in Iron Chef, and individually placed first in Cake Decorating and Sugar Sculpting. We were published in several areas including the Coast Guard Magazine in 2007 for the Culinary Olympics and in many other media outlets.Response by PO3 Candace Gracik made Apr 24 at 2014 7:26 PM2014-04-24T19:26:06-04:002014-04-24T19:26:06-04:00SSgt Private RallyPoint Member110359<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I ran a support group for the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). I help stage a bowl-a-thon where we raised over 22,000 for research for that disease. We had race cars, 22 Tampa Bay Bucs, two TV radio stations and a TV station. Reginald Rountree of Channel 10 called my house and asked me how I did that. The year before they had 2 lanes and that year we had 22 lanes.<br /><br />I have also forecast the weather on or about 100 radio stations in the USA, Caribbean and the Philippines and also help short track racing across this country. I have helped with the Florida Blood Services at Hooters where we did a blood drive.<br /><br />My current aim is to spread awareness of ALS in the military population using these radio stations, race tracks and the media to this end.Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 7:56 PM2014-04-24T19:56:12-04:002014-04-24T19:56:12-04:00MSG Private RallyPoint Member110432<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I did an interview while I was recruiting in Ohio. I had actually forgotten about it and figured that it was in the middle near the obituaries. About a month later I was walking by a news paper box and saw my face on the front page of the paper...needless to say I did a double take.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://blog.cleveland.com/brunswicksuntimes/2011/01/emily_wesemann_brunswick_sun_p.html">http://blog.cleveland.com/brunswicksuntimes/2011/01/emily_wesemann_brunswick_sun_p.html</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 9:15 PM2014-04-24T21:15:49-04:002014-04-24T21:15:49-04:00SFC Private RallyPoint Member110768<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>A couple of times on DVIDs for our DART Training in IraqResponse by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 25 at 2014 6:54 AM2014-04-25T06:54:44-04:002014-04-25T06:54:44-04:00WO1 Private RallyPoint Member111976<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>For a short while if you Googled "Infantry" there was an image of me shaking GEN Casey's hand in a chow hall in Korea. Which is funny since I'm a Scout...Response by WO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 26 at 2014 12:14 PM2014-04-26T12:14:56-04:002014-04-26T12:14:56-04:001LT Nick Kidwell489774<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I and my family were interviewed by a relatively clueless local reporter not long before my company mobilized to Iraq, and we were broadcast on that night's news.Response by 1LT Nick Kidwell made Feb 21 at 2015 1:32 PM2015-02-21T13:32:18-05:002015-02-21T13:32:18-05:002014-04-23T16:34:41-04:00