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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Combined Joint Operations. Doing ops using USAF stacks, talking with a Naval Carrier off the coast, using my Marine intelligence folks with US Army Soldiers and Czech Special Forces on the ground while on the phone with DoD Civilians and Aussie Liaisons...
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They each do. As I explain the difference between the army and marines: the marines do their killing retail, the army does theirs wholesale.
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I've served in two branches, the Air Force and Army. The separate branches have unique organizations and cultures that are generally based on their different missions. The Combined Arms team, consisting of two, three or all four branches, is the most awesome military power in history. Technology has supported command, control, and communications of the joint force but I believe that there should be more inter service training to improve interpersonal coordination and communication.
Without starting a firestorm, it's my personal opinion that the Marine Corps has placed too much reliance on their advertising and recruiting campaign hype. Marines are well trained but no better trained for their peculiar mission than Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen are trained for theirs. We have the best Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force in the history of the country and no one branch is any better than any other.
Although there has always been a healthy rivalry between the branches, ridiculing and denigrating other branches is petty, self-serving, and unnecessarily destructive to morale and discipline.
Without starting a firestorm, it's my personal opinion that the Marine Corps has placed too much reliance on their advertising and recruiting campaign hype. Marines are well trained but no better trained for their peculiar mission than Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen are trained for theirs. We have the best Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force in the history of the country and no one branch is any better than any other.
Although there has always been a healthy rivalry between the branches, ridiculing and denigrating other branches is petty, self-serving, and unnecessarily destructive to morale and discipline.
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I definitely don't feel one is superior to the other, however for the most part, if you want to preserve your body for after a long enlistment, I wouldn't join the Army, or Marine Corps! Just my humble opinion.
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The Air Force, Army, Marines, and Coast Guard all think they're superior.
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Truthfully, I think each and every branch thinks it's superior to the other branches. And in a way they all are. Each branch has its own niche, that the other branches can't fill exactly the same way. So we have, at least I would like to think a friendly competition.
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Does one branch feel superior? Apparently you've never met a Marine, or you would know, because they would TELL you.
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I agree we are one big team. I was in the Army and very proud to have served and I have a daughter who is in the Marine Corps so I give her a hard time but it is in fun because she knows how much I respect her and the Corps as I do with all branches of services.
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