In the two weeks
since it first hit the Internet, the YouTube video of Afghanistan-based
soldier recreating Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video have ricocheted around
the web enough times to accrue over 3 million hits. At this point,
everyone has seen it--including some of the military's top brass. And
they like what they see. Jay Price of the Raleigh, North Carolina, News &
Observer reports:
Fort Bragg soldiers whose goofy war-zone remake of a Lady Gaga video went viral over the weekend and soared to more than 3 million hits on YouTube have won a thumbs up from the brass.
"The brigade command team is happy to see that they also still have a good sense of humor and that morale is high," said Maj. Michelle Baldanza, a spokeswoman in Afghanistan for the division's 4th Brigade Combat Team via e-mail from Kandahar Air Field.
The soldiers have a challenging mission there, and they were just having a good time and "blowing off some steam in their downtime," Baldanza said.
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