This.

It's as if everyone here collectively chose to act like stock footage and training exercises aren't a fairly common thing. By all means it's worth talking about and how it relates to the given context (for example, the many cases where the media has historically pulled war footage from COMPLETELY unrelated battles/wars), but it's also not the end all of points. There are certainly valid reasons for stock footage or photo shoots, such as this very one above.

Facts matter - don't jump to conclusions without considering the context and surrounding information. Be open to having discussions on topics without calling every single person you meet with a differing opinion a shill. This entire forum is supposed to be for discussion, but as of recent times it's most commonly circle jerking it seems.