Do you consider the term jarhead and other names for the different branches of service offensive?

SGT Dan Gray - So if you have the balls to wear the uniform and aren't called to serve a duty, then your not family. Got it.

It is even more fun when it actually in the family. Me: 4yrs USAF 71-75 and 18yrs AGR OHARNG 82-2000. My son: Marine 2012-present. When he is home on leave it becomes a fee-for-all of service cuts til the commandear (wife/mom) tells us to knock it off. All done in love and respect.

SGT Dan Gray - Reread your post. I quote, and do a tour. So apparently, you did.

SGT Dan Gray - Nope, you're the one who didn't specify what you meant by a tour. A good NCO would have been clear about what he meant instead of leaving any doubt. I was just questioning your broad statement After all, broad statements and generalities can get men killed. Being special forces I thought you might understand that. Have a nice night.

That is kind of funny since. When people tell me that they are or have been a Marine.
I tell them I am sorry that they where not smart enough to get into any other branch.
Then I tell them it is o.k.. I could only get in to the Army.

that's only because they used what's left of the crayons not yet eaten to fill out the forms. notice you never see a USMC form in RED? tasted too much like Kool Aid, LOL. but then again the green ones in the box while I was ARMY always seemed to be gone too... LOL

Sgt Jerry Genesio - Yeah, but it was the Army Air Corps that had the balls to fly B25's off of aircraft carriers, with out fighter escort to bomb Tokyo

Army Air Corps suffered some if the worst casualty rates in WW2, 25 missions was a wish.

I especially like it when Navy members try to insult us Marines. I tell them " I realize that the Marine Corp is a department of the Navy.... its the MENS DEPARTMENT"

Sgt Jay Jones - you mean the recliner and arm chair generals... they seem to have all the answers now don't they. I tell them "MARCH (not walk) a mile or two in my boots"

I asked a Marine if that was kind of like being in the service. His answer "You were in the @$%&^$%@! Navy. I smiled and said yep. He then gave me one of the best comebacks , he said "We like the Navy, if it weren't for them we would have to march a long way on the water"! We both had a good laugh and still had respect for each other.

LCpl Ward Gualtieri - Seriously? more like the boys dept. with how we have to take you everywhere. ;-)

LTC (Join to see)
I think I heard/ read that also, Sir

Cpl Don "GUNNY" Miller
I was at Charleston and the bar had a mixed crowd.. I had a feather merchant(civilian ). Deride The Air
Force about s’thing and I let it slide off like water off a duck’s back.. he said s’thing else and again I let it slide showing utter calm.. he kept shoveling s**t and his hole kept getting deeper .. finally I said ; are you done yet?..he stopped ... and thought and looked around.. there were Marines, Sailors, other Airmen of various ranks and four or five Army Rangers in the group.. oh yeah, a few Coasties too.. And I ran down a list of humanitarian things that people in our services had done for civilians when disaster hit the homefront (SHTF->Sierra-Hotel-Tango-Foxtrot)... Somebody like us were there digging out, feeding, medicating, just the presence kept looters at bay.. somebody like us was doing s’thing.... for all I know , you might of been one of those somebodies we helped.. so why would I throw all that away lowering my character to
“b-slap you all the way to the other side of Charleston and these gentlemen may of finished after I got done... I finished my drink and bid him adieu and to go home and think about how close he came to getting his frame realigned..

Cpl Marcus Emrick I don’t reckon so.. the p.c crowd libtards don’t much like us Military
We seem to be the exception . we don’t care, because we got more character than they’ll every have in their spineless snowflake carcasses... jus’ sayin’...
Cpl Marcus Emrick !.. No
Soldier,Sailor, Marine, Coastie Or
Airman should ever need a p.c. Snowflake protecting their butthurt carcass.. because if they caan’t Handle it, they don’t deserve to wear the uniform of their service !
AM I CLEAR ON THAT, CORPORAL?
(Just had to read myself saying that!)..

You have to have a brain to have feelings. Which explains why it is hard to hurt marine feelings.

Call me flyboy.. I don’t care.. I served in the best darned AF this world has ever dealt with..
There almost isn’t a place I haven’t been or a clime I haven’t
Cooked or served a hot meal in to warm our men’s and women’s bodies .. well maybe s few. .
I worked for my Great Aunt in her restaurant for some years, Joined AF Reserve , went Active and went and furthered myself, earned my Cheffing papers, re-entered and served some more working different areas of our Food Service, including the clubs..(NCO and Officer) ... Don’t have time to be bothered by peeps that have to sate their ego calling others derogatory names. .. No room for it.. There was a group in Mogadishu that used the term skinnies over the radio.. A U.N. Observer contacted his peeps, they contacted the State DEPT. And some p.c. Peeps Came unglued.
Some Colonel took the heat,
Later his chopper went down..
he died , so nothing was done about it . The p.c. Snowflakes
Bent out of shape they couldn’t
see him court-martialed.. So they wanted his General boss to take the
Heat .. he called the heat of the moment.. So he told them snowflakes to just “suck it up!”..
(The day after he officially retired!)

Cpl Glynis Sakowicz - That is kind of strange.

Cpl Glynis Sakowicz - And the Navy is the ring finger... for all the happy couples after a sub deployment! LOL

It’s the attitude the person using it is in.. and the person recieving the comment.. what’s his attitude.. can he just ignore guy and suck it up and move or does go over and confront the loudmouth and maybe give him a lesson in civility in a roundabout way? Some can take it and some can’t dish it out without getting their clock reset for them..

Spot on Gunny, sort of "yeah, he's an asshole, but he's our asshole!"

Oohrah Gunny, from ya'lls Uber drivers.....Go Navy

*donned a military uniform. It’s ok, Gunny. I understand.

Damm skippy .

ET 1 Gerald Taylor. Safest guy in the world: a Navy corpsman in a bar full of marines.

PO1 Gerald Taylor - True that!!

No argument there. Hell even we Army troopers will stand to in defense of our medics. Three people you NEVER mess with in the military. They guy with the band-aids, The guy that makes sure you get paid, and the guy cooking your chow.

SPC Kelley McMahan - When I went to my first PCS as a security policeman in the Air Force, the first thing I was told. Don't mess with medics, pay admin, and cooks. Some other areas were supply. Most of us were able to get decent MA1 jackets and pilot sunglasses.

Amen brother.

PO2 Keith Reese - Listen, fucker....*/points knife hand*/... I only smell like bourbon and bacon.

Go on laugh at us. But when you see an A10 or in my day an F4 covering your butt, you were grateful. Of course when we were done, it was cocktail time.

SSgt BillandMaggie Straub - Never saw USAF. In my day they were all about Deep air interdiction and deep air support. Marine and Army rotary wing were most likely to show, then Marine and Navy fixed wing. If there was no soft serve ice cream machine, there was no USAF advance base. But I appreciate the thought though.

Looks like a fine day to be at sea ....