Posted on Jan 12, 2016
COL Mikel J. Burroughs
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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!
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MSgt Victor Moss
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That's a silly question; just ask any former Marine.
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MSgt Mason Manner
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The only branch that has not forgotten why they are there are the Marines ,every other branch hasbecome a social experience and a way to make stripes and brass while being incompetent doing nothing avoiding responsibility and lookinggreat in uniform. This appliesespecially to USAF
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SSG Bde Cmd Driver
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No matter what branch you are in you’ll think your superior to all the other branches. It’s like a sibling rivalry, always try to out do the other one, but at the end of the day we are all brothers and sisters and we respect each other.
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MSG Floyd Williams
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The rivalry used to motivate me to do better.
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SGT Aric Lier
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Don't let this distract you from the the fact that in 1966, Al Bundy scored four touchdowns in a single game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in the 1966 city championship game versus Andrew Johnson High School, including the game-winning touchdown in the final seconds against his old nemesis, Bubba "Spare Tire" Dixon.
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LCpl Troy Gwyn
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Even the Marine Hymn gives the Army and Navy a light poke. The Air Farce and Coast Guard don't even rate a mention.
'Nuf said!
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PFC Robert Rice
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There is always going to be an inner service rivalry between the different branches. Each branch thinks they are superior to the other. Each have a job to do and that is how I look at it.
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SSG Robert White
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Oh Christ yes, The Air Force.
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SGT J M Porters
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Of course we are Superior. And if you do not think so you are in the wrong branch!
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SN Brian Riter
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I don’t how to explain it to people because they don’t seem to grasp it but the navy is the best branch of the armed forces plain and simple.
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