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

Nope and neither do most Marines I know.

I'm in VFW, Legion, and Patriot Guard. It seems some Marine Veterans totally despise the USAF. Just totally can't comprehend their attitude and thinking.

As has already been said when one service members says it to another there is no issue all military are family. And all families joke with each other.

I usually would ask a Marine friend of mine about what it was like being in the Naval Infantry!!! :-D And he didn't kill me, he was one big sumbitch.

No we know it all in fun as long as your military

sorry. bad text. fubar cell dictionary

I highly respect the marines. and when the SHTF I am enlisting with the nearest one I can find follow his orders. given the character I have seen displayed in 3 of the branches I have served..i regret not going into the marines.. all this being said..i think their right, interactive rivalries. sibling classmate ribbing. if you ever had a drill instructor and lived out of a foot locker , we were members of the same fraternity. attended school in the same place. I served during the Grenada campaign, I saw the debacle with communications between branches. I was I say then, went on to serve yearly res. in signal corps, saw the results and improvements as a result of Grenada. then went on to return to avionics and ground radio in Tn army national guard for 6 more years. and two stints in officers candidate school. I gravitate to other services members in my units then..they all had certian skills and abilities afforded them by their branches. civilians just don't get it..they often are consumed by petty high school mentalities towards others and subvert or sabotage others careers and refuse to work with others. act like brats..or our word was INDIVIDUALS. I have worked with veterans I did not get along with. and worked well together despite the friction. what gets me has been the weekend warriors. guardsmen. not as petty as civillians. but just as much primadonnas. backstabbing and manipulations and politicking just like civilians. yet seem entitled. only prior enlisted generally have been good of this attitudes. So from time to time I get a troll or punk in my face or on a keyboard giving me grief. I shut them down with this fact.. when you sign on the dotted line and raise you hand to swear the oath to write that blank check UP TO And INCLUDING YOUR LIFE. When you are prepared to PAY THE EXPENSE OF FREEDOM. Dont lecture me , get back with me after you have.

As a former Marine it doesn’t bother me at all. Yep I changed services and retired from the Army. Devil Dog

There is the old rule "smile when you say that". The UCMJ included charges of "provoking speech and gestures" for a reason.

My ex husband was a marine and I was in the army. We all talk bs to each other. As far as anyone who hasn’t served a day in their life, I’d be offended but wouldn’t get overly butt hurt over it haha