Does one US military branch think it's superior?

All of the branches think they are the best - but only the Air Force is correct.

I do not believe so. Some of my Marine friends are a little agitated in their views but I cross that off to their enthusiasm, which I am 100% for. Every person who served should be proud of their service and their branch of service. This is what make America great!

After reading many of the comments, I would ask many of you to reconsider your responses and respond with yes, your branch is superior. That you would think that in any circumstance that your contribution in joint operations would make the differene and ensure victory without denigrating your partners. It would be hard for me, served in the US Marine Corps, to state that my grandfathers service during WWI with the 3rd Army in Germany, fighting in the trenches was not superior, or my friends, classmates and fellow Marines who gave all in Vietnam were not superior, or my father during WWII service was not superior, or a former co-volunteer on active Army duty with the Green Berets is not superior. All are superior and when each branch works together during joint operations, each branches superiority and contributions continue to make our branches the best in the world. As I see, mostly, young men enlisting in the Army, Marine Corps and a father with the Coast Guard, I am impressed by the quality and commitment of the youth in our country, and with three more locals becoming Eagle Scouts, hopefully many more will enlist and feel that their branch is superior while respecting the contributions of their partners and knowing all make us great.

In 2011, 163 Marines were CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Considering the size of the USMC...that tells you who makes the strongest leaders.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/people/secnav/Mabus/Speech/CouncilForeignRelationsv2.pdf

An honest assessment of the Marine Corps Infantry vs Army Infantry of 20-30 years ago, based on joint training. Everything I am about to communicate is a comparison of the common soldiers and Marine Riflemen. Rangers and Special forces were a different class.
_The Marines Rifleman, platoon, and company level field war fighting skills were superior to anything I saw in the Army except Rangers and Special Forces units. Plus the Marines did not half-ass things like fighting holes, fire sketches, and small unit fire plans in the defense, the common soldiers had no idea what we were doing. Almost all Marine Riflemen new and could make calls for fire (Close air and Indirect) and could lay in crew-served weapons. I did not see the same when training with soldiers. They were clearly trained in it but they gun decked and pencil whipped enough that it was useless.
_The Marine infantry man never saw engineering assets (explosives, wire, obstacles) or training dummies, the common infantry soldier was far more familiar with their use.
_The Marines only paid attention to NBC warfare when an ORI was coming up. The Army seemed to live that stuff.
_Marines rarely conducted field training in company sized or battalion sized operations, so command and control at those level was suspect at best. I felt the Army was far superior in this aspect. The Marines operated on the assumption that everyone knew what the commander's intent was and would adjust as necessary. I don't know if that is good or bad.
_The common soldier's marksmanship was underwhelming. Marines could with the odd exception put rounds on target.
_As a unit, the soldiers did not have the endurance/toughness the Marines did. When things were miserable the soldiers showed it. The Marines gutted it out without complaint and often took perverse pride in a high misery factor.
_I thought the Marines were hot stuff at air mobile ops (always platoon sized) until I saw a Brigade exercise as aggressors for the Army. First and only time I got my ass handed to me as an aggressor. (We were straight leg aggressors). The Army was vary gracious in the way they wrapped my ass up in a box with pretty paper and a bow in short order.

As for the other services. The Air Force certainly had the best amenities and Power Point presentations. The Navy had better chow, except aboard ship, and always smelled like diesel fuel. And I never got to play with the Coast Guard.

First off, I believe there's more rivalry between jobs/missions within the Army than the Army having beef with any other branch. I've read a few books from the Korean War where the Marine Corps looked down on the Army but they probably had good reason to due to the poor shape some of the Army units were in then for several valid reasons. Personally, I think there's some competitiveness between the Army and the Marine Corps but it's all professional and it's all because we got several jobs and missions that are similar. I personally never had any issues with any other branch because I understood every branch has their mission.

They all have their jobs to do. I believe each branch does their very best at whatever they do. Each branch have highly trained elite units. Nobody is any better than anyone else. Just different skills, discipline, fortitude. The Army should not wear their utility/BDU's off base.

Well of course. We all know that us old Jarheads are clearly the baddest boys on the earth... lol We are by far the best looking too.. OOOOOORAAAAH!

It always depends on the task at hand. Our unique training and experience makes us better than each when that is considered. My submarines couldn't provide close air support and planes don't submerge very well (I mean in flying condition),unless using the vessel in Voyage to the bottom of the sea series.

In my family, there is only one branch that our family has not served in. Coast Guard. We have discussions about which one is better or worse all the time. No one has either won or lost in these discussions. It usually evens itself out in the end. But we do enjoy trying to