Air Force Pulls Misleading Ad

Service will rework spot for 'Above All' campaign, release with new story line

By Jim O'Neill, Newser User

Posted May 29, 2008 10:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – An Air Force commercial that shows a US communications satellite exploding and implies a single missile could knock out cell phones, GPS navigation, banking transactions, and TV broadcasts has been pulled for being misleading, the Military Times reports. The ad, part of the Air Force’s “Above All” campaign will get a new story line and be re-released.

Communications experts said knocking down part of the GPS constellation of satellites could disrupt or black out the services, but more than one satellite would need to be destroyed. The ad campaign has several other commercials that continue to run on CNN and on the Internet. The Air Force pulled the anti-satellite ad May 14, but it's still on YouTube.

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In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Joseph Aton clears a B-1B Lancer to drop six GBU-38 munitions on a house that served as an al-Qaida prison and training facility... (AP Photo/ Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway, U.S. Air Force)

A Hawaii Air National Guard KC-135 tanker refuels a B-2 bomber over the Pacific near Hawaii in this Oct. 23, 2007 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force. (AP Photo/Master Sgt. Mark Sindiong.)

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Air Force Pulls Misleading Ad