Given how important tabs are in the Army, should a prior service Marine now in the Army have a special tab indicating their background?

wow, you take our American Legion Post and put your name on it? I created this post and got over a million hits. Low brow brother, low brow

LCpl (Join to see) - I may be a cadet but I'm also a national guardsman and lost my only brother who died in Afghanistan who was a marine who transferred to the army & I had the same conversation with him about the issue & as a marine who was infantry he said hell no. If you didn't go to the school and the SF training you didn't earn anything. He didn't get any tabs till he earned them. So first off, stop being a jackass for no reason, second marines aren't special, so stop trying to act like you are. Third just because it may say "cadet" on the profile name doesn't mean they are an idiot nor that they are any less informed that you. Lastly you don't know what anyone who post has gone thru so stop acting like an ass because your a marine. You ain't special & you sure as hell don't earn the special forces title/tab for just being a marine even if you were in marine special operations which most marines in those units have to go thru a bunch of army schools anyway to be marsoc. So again, not special.

Capt (Join to see) - with all due respect sir, time doesn't necessarily make an individual more advanced or elite than another soldier, just because marine infantrymen may have more time to get to the endpoint of the training doesn't mean they are better or worse. Yes marines have the amphibious expertise that a regular army infantryman fir the 1st-4th Infantry Division don't have. But the army also has its elite infantry from the 10th mountain, 82nd, 101st, & 173rd Airborne, as well as both airborne & mountain infantry from the 25th ID. Plus the 101st is the experts in air assault. So marine infantry and army infantry are not one better than the other. They have different jobs. Yes, "every marine is a rifleman" but so is every soldier, and the 14 weeks is just basic training for the army, not OSUT for infantry/armor/cavalry. Which is longer than 14 weeks in total. The point is the marines say that you have to earn the title marine, but it goes both ways. MARSOC is a newcomer to the Special Operations Community (as of 2006-2008 if I remember correctly) whereas the Army SF has been around as far back as 1952. MARSOC marines are equivalent in mission purpose & style of the US Army Rangers of the 75th, who are the people the SF primarily pick from, who in term are picked from to be 1st SFOD-D operators. So to the original point both branches have their different specialties & units but that doesn't make any more elite or entitled than the other. Thus being a marine is not equivalent to being army SF. Not even all SF soldiers get the SF tab unless/until they go thru the JFK Special Warfare School

Cadet 2LT (Join to see) -much of what you talk about has nothing to do with thetopic. Every Marine carries a basic "0300" MOS, meaning ebery Marine is a rifleman THEN they have their secondary MOS as cook, driver, etc. Not so in the Army. You don't know what you're talking about, you ignored the the 2 great Army generals that you know and there are many others who have recognized and documented Marine performance. Marines don't "earn" anything for being Marines. With all due respect, you're not even in the service. You've never been to boot camp and I'm just saying your opinion about Marines is wrong. I am just telling you about Marines, not being an ass. I've been in the Corps and the Army and I'm more qualified to give an appraisal of both.

So your aware, I’m a prior service cadet, I came from active duty army infantry, then moved to the NG while I’m in schools to be an officer. I’m an E-5 which is 2 ranks above a dumbass lance corporal which is no better than a PFC in the Army, so your no better than a Private where as I have experience as an NCO. And again as I said, and have experience first hand on my first deployment, Army Infantry is equivalent and often better performance wise than many Marines I know and have seen first hand. Again as I mentioned before, just because the profile says ”cadet” doesn’t mean I’ve never served or been to OSUT in the Army. Your actually just proving my point how arrogant and ridiculous Marines are. Your so full of yourselves and think everyone should give you praise because your basic is 2 weeks longer. No one gives a shit. Marines are an outdated, insignificant, waste of Defense spending. You try to do everyone else’s jobs and are very average at it. It was the Army not USMC that fought in both Europe and the Pacific in WWII, on Okinawa, and the Philippines as well as half a dozen other islands including Guadalcanal just like marines. It was the Army who did not only the biggest but also the second biggest amphibious landings in history, not marines who are the “amphibious experts”. It’s the Army, Navy and AF who were the first info Afghanistan who toppled the Taliban regime for the most part before the majority of forces entered Afghanistan. Army SF & Deltas, but also soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions. On top of actually having been in the military before going into rotc, my major is US Military History and in my free time I read books, watch documentaries and have talked to many military personnel and experts not only from the US but also other countries. So ya, kinda do have an idea as to what I’m talking about

All wings and medals except shooting that were awarded in other services along with ribbons earned can be worn and recognized including Seabees