GayDemon's review of Active Duty

Dink Flamingo's Active Duty features cute all-American military guys from 18 to around 25. It's one of the few miliary sites around that doesn't use the same licensed feature DVDs as all the other miliary sites. Active Duty shoots their own videos and pics, and while they do sell DVDs and pay per view of their content, this is the only website that offers this content in their member area. The guys are hot, and I really liked the site on our last visit, so I'm off to see what's new inside Active Duty!

The updates are listed prominently on the member home page below two rows of links that lead to content, bonuses, and things to buy. The updates are listed with dates, so it's easy to see that something new is added every 3 to 4 days.

The updates aren't always in the same sections, and aren't always downloadable, but there's often new men to see here, including streaming videos, photo sets and weekly downloads. This site wants members to buy DVDs, so expect to find a fair amount of links to DVDs for sale on galleries, next to videos and on the main member page.

Active Duty has 968 photo sets and the videos are found in four sections. There are a total of 431 videos starting with 154 streaming videos in the War Chest Updates, 261 streaming videos in the Active Duty Live section averaging an hour long each. There are also 12 streaming DVD scenes in the Videos of the Week section that are rotated out and replaced regularly, and last there are 4 full scenes from DVD's in the Weekly Downloads section that are replaced with other scenes each week.

All the videos except the live show archives are offered in 2 sizes of WMV - 640x480 at about 800k and around 320x240 at just under 300k. Both are good amateur quality and played smoothly for me. For those who can't play WMV's, the larger version of each video can also be streamed in Microsoft Silverlight. It's possible that the WMV's use DRM - right click was disabled on all but the archived live shows, so there was no way to tell. The archived live shows are DRM-free WMV's shown at 320x240 with a bitrate of 141k, and while they're not as good as the other videos, they're not bad - in fact, I really liked them.

When it comes to pics, Active Duty is a mixed bag. Yes, there are almost 1000 photo sets, and that's a good thing. But while some galleries are good amateur quality digital stills shown at 467x700 to 600x900, maybe half the galleries are average vidcap quality screencaps sized from a small 320x240 to a more pleasing 750x422, most falling between the 2 sizes at 480x360. Both vidcaps and digital stills show off the guys pretty well, and although some galleries have less than 20 videos, most have more.

Active Duty has plenty of both solo and hardcore action in the pic sets and the videos. There's also plenty of yummy all-American military guys 18 - 27, some in uniform. The performers definitely do have that all-American look to them, sort of masculine and cute at the same time, plus some who look tougher. Like most guys in their age bracket, the Active Duty guys are horny as hell and their cocks stay hard whether they are fucking, sucking or jacking off.

Members get access to some interesting extras. First are the scheduled live shows. There are 6 this week, featuring the guys of Active Duty, and happening in the evening. Next are 2 bonus sites - Dirty Bird Pictures and My Straight Buddy. There are 17 gay feeds in the Streaming Theater section, and although it says at the top of the page that the feeds are down, they worked find for me. Last is Dink's Diary, which is a blog. While there's some stuff here you may find interesting, Dink's Diary hasn't updated in the last several months.

I'll admit that this site does have some issues. Yes, they rotate some of the videos out so members can't watch previous videos, and they are a little heavy handed about selling their DVD's. And it's impossible to right click on any of the videos but the archived live shows, so there's no way to know if they use DRM, but if so, perhaps Mac users can watch the Silverlight versions.

If you like cute all-American military boys and masculine servicemen, the guys from Dink Flamingo's Active Duty are sure to hit the spot with a mix of very hardcore gay sex and solo jerkoff sessions. Offering over 400 streaming videos, updates every 3 to 4 days, several live shows every week and a huge collection of pic sets, this site has a lot going for it. While most of the videos aren't downloadable, they're definitely hot, and while this site does try hard to sell their DVD's and clips, the content delivers horny all-American guys in (well, out of) uniform jerking off, sucking each others' cocks and fucking ass. Overall I'd say that Active Duty does what they do better than most so-called military sites around, and is well worth checking out!

Things we liked:

• Real VERY HOT military guys
• Site updates every 3 to 4 days
• Scheduled live shows every week
• Large collection of archived live shows

Things we didn't like:

• Most videos are not downloadable
• Videos in 2 sections are removed and replaced weekly
• Right clicking disabled on many videos - they may use DRM

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