Army Is Your Career Path poster, PPB-333 (Vietnamese, Saigon)

A Vietnamese-language recruiting poster. A large stylised figure of a young man stands among photographs of army trades labelled driving, nursing, communications, typing, shoemaking, printing and engine repair, under the headline that the army is the career path for 'you'. It promotes military service as vocational training. The tell is plain-folks and glittering-generalities: ordinary working men and a promise of a career stand in for the risks of service, which the sheet does not mention.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Plain folksGlittering generalitiesBandwagon

Date

June 25, 1964

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Johnson Administration

Leader

Lyndon B. Johnson

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Recruit

Themes

War and the military, Labor

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, June 25, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949258, 306-PPB-333).

QUÂN ĐỘI LÀ CON ĐƯỜNG HƯỚNG NGHIỆP CỦA CÁC BẠN

LÁI XE
Y-TÁ
TRUYỀN TIN
ĐÁNH MÁY
ĐÓNG GIÀY
ẤN LOÁT
SỬA MÁY

4-901 (20)   F646QD

THE ARMY IS THE CAREER PATH FOR YOU

DRIVING
NURSE
COMMUNICATIONS
TYPING
SHOEMAKING
PRINTING
ENGINE REPAIR