Should the military create a warrior class?

Dude, getting the help you need isn't going to be easy, but nothing about your chosen profession is or was easy I'm guessing. Give it a try before asking GO's to change the way the treat non-infantry types for PTSD.

Yea, you just have it so tough, SFC. Cry me a river.

I'm in an Airborne Infantry Battalion. Lots of tabs, scrolls and every badge imaginable. Guess who gets the accolades for how well an operation went down. The Forward Support Company. Always there, always on time. The only thanks you need is the "privilege" of wearing that blue cord on your uniform. That sets you apart. Wear it with pride.

Blah, Blah, Blah, same old infantry is special routine. I've been a supply SGT my whole career and up until recently I've only been with combat arms. You guys are not special, some combat arms not all but a large majority are a bunch of whiney pre-Madonna's. You are no better than anybody else everybody has there own part to play. However you keep believing that your special and remember one day you have to leave the Army. I don't want to be 40 and keep walk or get a decent job because "grunt" doesn't look good on a resume.

Ok Rambo lets get real it takes support from other specific support units to make it work.

Yes

How about you try to be a Parachute Rigger, and then come tell me about destroyed bodies. Then give being a 88M a try and see how endless convoy operations sit on you. Operators are more highly regarded and deservingly so. I haven't had to have this blue cord bullshit conversation in over a decade because I obviously know a higher grade of soldier than you are sarnt. As for your "true warrior" comment, for christ's sake man I would love to hear you tell the troops that have been blown to shit by IEDs that they aren't warriors. If you want to be elite get a Tab, a Scroll, or Delta designation, if not, and your content to be seen as a guy who failed the ASVAB for your entire career then fine, left right left your dumb leg self all around post and paint a curb and shut the hell up. No Wings, no Tabs, no Scroll, no ambition.


It might not have been intended to be a put-down but you didn't take the time to word it in a way to convey your thoughts without coming off as a dumb grunt. You give the Infantry a bad name.

I would hate for my brothers to look down on me for not being combat arms. That would make me less of a soldier if I gave them more respect than others. We all go through the same things, he'll I've seen some 42a's with a c.a.b. And more ribbons than a grunt so

So you saying my ass walking in front of 11B towards the enemy and driving around just to get the case of IEDs and being shot at or doing SQB, raids, foot patrols, basically everything infantry is except in name. As 19D required to basically breathe down the enemy's neck until infantry shows up doesn't make 19D being placed into high tegard? Or perhaps those line combat engineers who had been busy taking down buildingx in Falujiah or Ramadi with explosives, or those combat engineers clearing obstacles on the Omaha Beach are not to be considered at higher regard?

I have given them respect despite their behavior. There were many times when I drove my tanks to or by light infantry only to get booed or called names. Respect is a two way street.