Should the military create a warrior class?

I'm very much disappointed with the "entitlement mentality" displayed in the original post. The days of the Spartans fighting their enemies for glorious accolades is long past. The phrase "No one wants to go to war and fight, but someone needs to know how" comes to mind. If you choose to serve, your reasons why are your own business. If you think that because you chose to join as an Infantryman or an "operator" because those classifications will set you apart from those of us who are not, then you are a fool on a fool's errand. Obviously, during the time I entered the service, jobs for women were not as abundant as they are now. Nevertheless, we are all taught basics like marksmanship and land nav for a reason. As military professionals, it is our privilege to serve and that does not include special privileges. Good luck with that attitude. I hope you don't get anyone killed with it.

Wow...So like because I didn't spend 6 months practicing CQB before I went to Afghanistan it negates all the combat that came to visit me? That's got to be the most myopic, asinine, draconian and just bass-ackward reasoning I have EVER heard.

I suppose in your world only infantry and SF go into harms way and pull triggers. I must have missed when we time-warped back to 1945. I don't even know where to start with this one...

Well... wtf do you want?

National Infantry Day? With full parades, gold sticker awarding and a pot luck thrown by the POGs?

How about Fellatio Fridays on post? where everyone lines up to have the "honor" of slobbing an 11B? (Including NCOs and officers, of course).

Wait, I got it. A mandatory brief, where we are forced to learn how the infantry is better, and how we should work extra hard for them. Mandatory briefs are the answer for everything.

As an one time 11C I think that every solider - just like every Marine should have an 11 secondary that they qualify in FIRST, then become the intel analyst or whatever you're going to do and you should have to maintain some sort of certification in that 11 series MOS.

Respect - well now there's a different kettle of fish completely. An E-7 automatically brings a lot of credence into the room just with those stripes. It has been my experience that the level of respect from his/her peers from that point on is directly related to what comes out of their mouths and the manner in which they conduct themselves. Back in the day, as they say, I could tell within 5 minutes if an NCO and I where going to work well together - the way they carried themselves, how they treated others (not me) in the group - and if they followed my Mom's advice - you've got one mouth and two ears, use them in that exact proportion.....

All the pathetic butthurt and "feelings" coming from the pogs and butt kissers is funny. I agree that Infantry and spec ops are the baddest hardest dudes in the military. And no pogs don't push themselves like grunts go not even close, stop lying to yourself

The bottom line is this, the days of safe operations in the rear echelons are long gone. There are no front lines anymore. Accordingly, every MOS regardless of that being combat arms or not, are in serious peril at any given moment. Although direct action is limited, any Infantryman who has the audacity to put down the skillsets of support personnel needs to get knocked on his or (and as of yesterday) HER's ass

I'm not sure how it is in other branches, and it is a bit fuzzy for me how the fleet run things, but we Seabees can do everything under the sun. We mainly build, but my 'bees have seen combat in both Afghan and Iraq. So it is a lot harder to say well so and so is a support personnel and not combatant. At least in my small community we are both. We Build. We Fight! Hoorah!

Would it be a resident or distance learning class? Maybe after 12 weeks you get your sword and toga.

They're called Marines.

*gets popcorn ready*

This is absolutely ridiculous. I was motor transport in an infantry regiment. Not only did I have to know my job, we were also expected to train right along side the bullet catchers. Whenever we went out to support an infantry unit we always had to pull double duty. Sure, the grunts had to hump out there while we drove the trucks. But while they were eating chow and sleeping, we were running all night long making sure they had everything they needed. Then during the day we had to dismount, gear up, and play grunt. I got to learn everything a grunt does from the basic rifleman to heavy weapons, and I even got to work with recon and snipers. I left the Marines with blown out knees, a herniated disc, and a few broken bones. Yeah, us POGs can put in an honest days work too.