{"id":25644,"date":"2019-02-01T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T15:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/01\/sgt-1st-class-sutton-is-back-with-another-army-recruiting-rap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:37:46","slug":"sgt-1st-class-sutton-is-back-with-another-army-recruiting-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/02\/01\/sgt-1st-class-sutton-is-back-with-another-army-recruiting-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt. 1st Class Sutton is back with another Army recruiting rap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Army has released four new recruiting<\/a> commercials in as many months, with high energy dramatizations of what service looks like. But they\u2019re also getting into the viral video game, dropping an Army recruiter<\/a> trap anthem with a face that might already be familiar with soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. 1st Class Arlondo Sutton, whose videos under the stage name Rookie Baby go back several years, first went viral last year with a slow jam called \u201cEnlisted,\u201d<\/a> featuring himself and other Atlanta Recruiting Battalion soldiers, touting the benefits of service, like education, housing and job experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cGiving All I Got,\u201d he teams up with Houston Recruiting Battalion\u2019s Sgt. 1st Class Jason Locke, in a montage that features many of the Army\u2019s 150 jobs and skills \u2015 airborne, military police, combatives, working dog handling, air assault, infantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you poll that with people of our generation, we think it\u2019s really creative and cool \u2015 and actually, I would sign up for that,\u201d Gen. Stephen Townsend, the head of Training and Doctrine Command, told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lyrics tout education benefits and job descriptions, with a bridge that hammers home the perk of having your bills paid for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full three-minute version is available through most of the Army\u2019s social media channels, Townsend said, with shorter clips optimized for platforms with limits on video length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military police, including a working Belgian Malinois, figure heavily in the video. According to Townsend, the Army is putting an emphasis on law enforcement in some of its latest recruiting innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe found out that we have a lot of mutual interests,\u201d he said of a meeting with Chicago and Illinois state police during a trip to the Midwest metropolis, one of 22 major cities where the Army is beefing up its recruiting efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, they don\u2019t really want 19-year-old police recruits,\u201d Townsend said. \u201cThey want them to have some life experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chicago chief of police suggested it would be great for some if those young police hopefuls did an enlistment as an infantryman or MP, then came to the police academy a little more seasoned and mature.<\/p>\n\n\n\t