Posted on Jan 12, 2016
Does one US military branch think it's superior?
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Do you feel there is still an "inner service rivalry" between the Service Branches or that any one branch thinks they are Superior?
RP Members what do you think - be honest and professional in your responses please! Thank you
With all the deployments and joint operations that we have been involved in over the last 15 plus years of war and prior to that as well, aren't we all part of something a little bigger than our own service branches? We represent the United States of America in so many ways! We represent the freedom that all of the American citizens enjoy, to include ourselves!
For myself, I think is great to that we have the Navy/Army/Air Force rivalry on the football field and other sports, but I think it is important to realize the importance of joint operations and synchronization among the service branches.
I don't think that anyone branch is better than the other. That is my personal feeling.
They all have their specific missions, training philosophies, challenges, and characteristics that make them unique and special, but does that make them inferior or superior to the other service branches?
I'm sorry if I didn't tag some of the specific service branches!
RP Members what do you think - be honest and professional in your responses please! Thank you
With all the deployments and joint operations that we have been involved in over the last 15 plus years of war and prior to that as well, aren't we all part of something a little bigger than our own service branches? We represent the United States of America in so many ways! We represent the freedom that all of the American citizens enjoy, to include ourselves!
For myself, I think is great to that we have the Navy/Army/Air Force rivalry on the football field and other sports, but I think it is important to realize the importance of joint operations and synchronization among the service branches.
I don't think that anyone branch is better than the other. That is my personal feeling.
They all have their specific missions, training philosophies, challenges, and characteristics that make them unique and special, but does that make them inferior or superior to the other service branches?
I'm sorry if I didn't tag some of the specific service branches!
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No rivalries, just facts, sailors drive big grey boats, airmen fly the planes that get us there, and the soldiers come in and clean up our mess. Do you all understand?
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CW3 Kevin Storm
Sir, I think you need to go sit down at the Library and open that book marked American History, that or get your nurse to check your Geritol dosage checked. Those Marine Myths are starting to become reality in your mind. There are treatments for that. Lol all in good fun!
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LtCol Robert Quinter
CW3 Kevin Storm - No need for either. My prior statements were all gospel! I was there!
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No, we are all equal, I mean, other than the Coast Guard, all four branches think we are better then a coasty....LOL
(BTW, Joke, CG folks do a Job that takes every bit of professionalism, Technical strengths any Marine, Army Soldier, Air force supporter or zoomie or Navy Seaman has...
When we are hiding indoors staying dry, they are going out in that crap getting it done. )
(BTW, Joke, CG folks do a Job that takes every bit of professionalism, Technical strengths any Marine, Army Soldier, Air force supporter or zoomie or Navy Seaman has...
When we are hiding indoors staying dry, they are going out in that crap getting it done. )
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CW3 Kevin Storm
The Coasties head into weather the Navy and the rest of the services stay away from. Growing up in New England I can't tell you how many times I heard the Coasties going out and saving someone or organizing a search to look for the lost crew. Sometimes with their own not coming back. All in little tin cans. It is the one branch I don't talk trash too.
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I wouldn't call it an actual rivalry, nor that one branch actually believes is better than the other, since most do understand their job; therefore, understand everyone else has theirs, with their own specialties and expertiese. Is as simple as how regular troops tend to be better at certain tasks, and spec ops better at others that the first just would not know how to do, and vice versa.
In a different page, we're all brothers in one big family, so a little sibling rivalry is always expected, mostly in good fun, but I do believe is mostly driven by that pride of belonging that all of us undoubtedly feel than an actual sense of superiority.
In a different page, we're all brothers in one big family, so a little sibling rivalry is always expected, mostly in good fun, but I do believe is mostly driven by that pride of belonging that all of us undoubtedly feel than an actual sense of superiority.
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My brother was a USN Nuc weapons tech.
My Dad an Army Helicopter Warrant officer in vietnam.
Mom and Sister were Army (mom was a WAC and sis a 37F).
Son leaves this summer - Army. He almost went Air Force but his recruiter was crap. I would have been proud of him as an Airman...but I admit that Im just a bit more proud now that he is joining the Army - just a tiny bit.
My Dad an Army Helicopter Warrant officer in vietnam.
Mom and Sister were Army (mom was a WAC and sis a 37F).
Son leaves this summer - Army. He almost went Air Force but his recruiter was crap. I would have been proud of him as an Airman...but I admit that Im just a bit more proud now that he is joining the Army - just a tiny bit.
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Maybe you can get where I am coming from.....if you poke a bad guy with one finger.....you might break that finger....much more effective if you hit him with a FIST
As a Green Beret I would have a hard time surviving the battle without the support of EVERYBODY on that team...... from the truck driver who hauled the ammo.....to the Air Force that delivered the bomb..... to the nurse that bandaged my wounds...... EVEN the civilian that paid the taxes
WE ARE ALL ONE TEAM....each doing their job the best they know how.... to think one is "superior" over another is an egotistical fantasy
As a Green Beret I would have a hard time surviving the battle without the support of EVERYBODY on that team...... from the truck driver who hauled the ammo.....to the Air Force that delivered the bomb..... to the nurse that bandaged my wounds...... EVEN the civilian that paid the taxes
WE ARE ALL ONE TEAM....each doing their job the best they know how.... to think one is "superior" over another is an egotistical fantasy
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I have been Active Duty AF and now AF Reserves, and I don't see anything wrong with the "rivalry and competition between branches, I welcome it. Because, we are all family when it comes down to it and I've seen it. We will roast each other, we will fight each other, we will make fun of each other, but let an outsider or civil attempt to do the same. The whole power of the Armed Forces falls upon them. Each service member has to remember their time and place on the spare, we are all needed, and we all come together when we need too. But, if you sit back and believe that you are better then the next person because of the branch you choose and look down your nose at every one, there is no place for you in the U.S. Military because we are each other's Wingman, Battle buddy etc....
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Only on the football field. In time of war or keeping the peace, the services are equal when it comes down to it. Oh, we might brag or complain but we will always support the other services.
U.S. Navy - First Among Equals
U.S. Navy - First Among Equals
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