Classic Navy SEALs Recruitment Ad Sneaks Up on You

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Sunday's daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan was a great advertisement for the U.S. Navy SEALs. But the SEALs recruitment commercial below is one of the great military ads ever made. Called "Footprints," it was created in 2006 by director Stu Maschwitz and Detroit ad agency Campbell-Ewald. Maschwitz started out at George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, then co-founded top visual-effects company The Orphanage, where he worked on feature films as well as commercials.

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