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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I believe Marines have enough self confidence in themselves to not be offended by anything said to them by any other service. We give as much as we get!!!!!!!
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Good natured kidding with members of other services has been around forever, and will probably continue. Nothing wrong with it. It is inappropriate for non veterans to engage in this behavior however.
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It doesn’t bother me. I have a buddy at work who was in the Navy, and I tell him to leave my crayons alone. They’re only for me to eat.
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Not at all. They are Terms of Endearment from our fellow brothers and sisters and are given and returned with humor and no ill will intended. Now, coming from the other 99% who have never served....
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Since only Marines are called jarheads......I wear the term as a badge of honor. Lot of back and forth goes on between the branches of service.......and we all give as good as we get. I asked a coworker once if he was in the military, and he said yes. I asked what branch, and he said Air Force. I thought you said you were in the military, I told him. You must have been a jarhead, he responded. We had a lot of fun with the back and forth on that for years. Truth is......I have a lot of respect for anyone that took the oath to serve our country, regardless of which branch they chose to do it in. Except for the Navy, of course......hate those squids! (Just jerking the chains of my Navy friends......actually like those guys......at least, most of them)
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Just don't call me late for dinner or call me a Wog (pollywog). Leatherneck & Shellback and proud of it. When my Dad was still living he called me jarhead. I called him Doggie because he was Army Infantry SGT, WWI/Korea. He often referred to his time in Army as being cannon fodder.
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