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

When you serve in the military, no matter what branch, they’ll always be a rivalry. That’s the nature of the beast. I have good friends in all the branches and we will banter back and forth about our branch being the best. I take and I give it and we all laugh because that’s who we are. After all, we are all brothers and sisters in the military and we’ll defend them all.

Marine's tend to get the most butthurt. However, calling a Marine a Jarhead is the same as calling him a Marine.

Heck, two of my best buddies are former Marines. I call them jar heads all the time and they call me a squid, I’m former navy. We don’t think a damn thing about it. All three of us served in-country Vietnam and are like brothers.

I was assigned to joint task force in Alaska and it was a great experience working with all branches. There was a lot of name calling and joking around but never had any problems. We are all brothers and sister.

Negative. Always in good fun. That said, be smart about it. If you are the only fly boy in a crowd of jarheads, I'd wait till some more of the USAF buddies make the scene. Let's see......USAF pay comes from USAF funding. US Army-USA, Coast Guard-USCG, US NAVY-USN, Marines? Have no funds, the US Navy pays their salary!

I don't take offense at all, when it is one of our own. As others have said, it's all in the family, and brothers [and sisters] will pick on each other all the time. I don't like the idea of someone who hasn't served saying it; they've not earned the right. If they want to make the comment, stand the Watch.

After we have fun when shit hits fan we have each others back. Off duty we are all fair game lol

No but only when the other services use it . When a civilian use’s them not cool

I laugh and say you might not like the army, but i bet you were nice to finance!

In 3rd CAR back in the days when you had DATs (Dumb-Ass Tankers) and Scouts in the same platoon, you had the same thing happen. Scouts gave shit to tankers and vice versa, but if another platoon gave your tankers a hard time, you rallied to the defence of your own. I agree that interservice rivalries are a good thing, as long as you served. Civilians talking smack anout a fellow veteran/active server, I'll back um up... even the Jarheads, Squids and Chair Force.