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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If you don’t feel your military branch is superior to the others you have been cheated by your instructors and superiors. If you don’t feel esprit de Corps, get out.
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Col. Burroughs, are you a Col. of the Coast Guard? I belong to the most audacious brotherhood of Marines. I don't need any other. If you sent me on a mission and lined up one person from each branch and said I could pick one to go with me, I would pick the Marine. If there was not a Marine I would go it alone. The few the proud the Marines. Enough said.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks Sgt Michael Sargent Sam Samardzija As you can see by my profile I'm a Colonel in the Army, but I got the dig. Thanks!
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YES. EVERY one of them. And now that you think about it, you wouldn't want it any other way...
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The simply answer is yes. It part of the training ingrained into each person who choices a branch of service. In peace time, it's more a political thing because each branch is working to get the biggest part of the pie from Congress. At the working level, in joint operations, there is Competition, but at completing their part of the mission with few if any FUBRs. On deployments, it a whole different thing. You do you job to the best of your ability no matter what branch. In the end, in my opinion, Yes, one does thinks they are better. Every one of them. And that's a good thing.
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Because of my family has at least 1 member of every Branch of Service I have said this.
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There is absolutely no doubt that it takes all branches of our military to take on its assigned mission, and carry it through too completion. This includes Navy, Marines, Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard. We are all brothers in arms, and will defend one another when appropriate.
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Hell yes! The Air Force thinks they are the smartest. The Navy thinks they are the sexiest. The Army thinks they are the biggest. The Marines think they are the toughest. I’m not going to say what the branches think of the other branches.
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Inner Service rivalry came about because of which branch is Superior over the other. I believe you'd have to enlist in each branch to really find out.
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