Posted on Jun 18, 2016
Do you consider the term jarhead and other names for the different branches of service offensive?
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I have a couple of friends who are Marines (They are both out but I know 'Once a Marine always a Marine') and I've jokingly called them jarheads and they've made fun of the Army. I'd never call someone I just met a jarhead unless they absolutely knew I was joking. I guess what I'm getting at is, do you think interservice rivalry can sometimes come off as 'offensive'' even if it's meant jokingly?
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Have a friend and old neighbor that was a Marine and we harass each other every now and then.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
Hey cowboy .. they will always be a Marine, no was to it. .. I retired a SSGT and I got a devil dog that calls me Airman... Hey, proud of it!
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
SSgt Boyd Herrst - Great brother, I'm proud of my service, just don't like being called sir, I worked for my money.
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It's supposed to be abrasive, but not demeaning.
Being a doc, I've been protected by devil dogs like I was their kin, but we call each other all sorts of 3 and 4 letter words.
Being a doc, I've been protected by devil dogs like I was their kin, but we call each other all sorts of 3 and 4 letter words.
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Cpl Rick Logan
We protected you because you protected us. Most often from ourselves. Long live the line company corpsman.
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It depends entirely on who says it, and the circumstance, but for the most part no it is not offensive.
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There's no such thing as "offensive" in the armed services. We all left that crap at the door prior to repeating the oath of enlistment.
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PO1 Jeffrey Pennala
I've always been partial to the term "Swab Jockey" PO1 Brian Austin I have plenty of divots and shin scars from knee knockers my first love USS Midway CV-41, USS Kitty Hawk CV-63, and the USS Saipan LHA-2
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It is funny, I only get annoyed when some chest thumper hears I was in the Navy and wants to give me the 10min speech on how much harder life was for him in Iraq or Afghanistan... I let them go for a while before I tell them I was a Corpsman attached to the Marines and did first two of 5 Iraq tours with the Infantry....
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Cpl Gerald Hill
Thats "Doc" and I'm sorry, thats what I told the corpsman/1st class for sewing me up at 1:00 AM at the 2nd Bn 3rd Marine aid station after he jokingly told me next next time to try to make it in the daylight hours so he could see what he was doing
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Not when a fellow GI is using those terms. We've earned that right. Civilians... Not so much
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You know, the other guys can say what the want abut the Air Force. HOWEVER---Every time they get their butts in a sling there's nothing prettier to them than the sight of a flock of F-16s or an AC-130 gun ship coming to their rescue! Not to mention the AF's aeromedical evacuation system. The thing to remember is to keep good humor and comradeship with the various nicknames be they "jar heads"(Marines),grunts (Army), Squids (Navy), or "Zoomies" (Air Force). We are all brothers/sisters in arms and wor to the foe who takes us on!!!
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MSG James Douglas
I'm a retired Soldier who now works on an Air Force base.....I keep my HOOAH! button on my desk just to let my coworkers I mean business....lol
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PO2 Lewis Brockman
PO2 David Allender - right on and the pilots of the medi-vac were crazy as shit house rats. I saw them take chances with their lives on many occasions and do things in a chopper that it is not supposed to do.
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