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I believe Infantry and Operators should be treated with a higher regard in the military.
Even officers and NCOs of all other military specialties should show respect to our nation's true warriors.
The general military is doing a good job of promoting everyone is a warrior but those non combat arms specialties do not train or destroy their bodies like true combatants. I would even say that infantry line medics and navy corpsman that are attached to the marines deserve the same regard.
This is not intended as a put down of other specialties but an awareness that some put in more than others in combat arms.
Even officers and NCOs of all other military specialties should show respect to our nation's true warriors.
The general military is doing a good job of promoting everyone is a warrior but those non combat arms specialties do not train or destroy their bodies like true combatants. I would even say that infantry line medics and navy corpsman that are attached to the marines deserve the same regard.
This is not intended as a put down of other specialties but an awareness that some put in more than others in combat arms.
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No. This is the kind of thought process that you usually get from junior enlisted, "I'm infantry, I'm a badass". Let's reverse this thought process for a second. Let's remember all those service members who were not infantry/SOC and yet stepped up to engage in combat or give their lives. You say you train constantly for combat, well they didn't and yet they still engaged in the same fight as the infantrymen around them. Remember that the next time you start feeling superior.
I'm not going to delve into the whole cycle of POG/Grunt supporting each other towards a common mission as others have already covered it sufficiently.
I'm not going to delve into the whole cycle of POG/Grunt supporting each other towards a common mission as others have already covered it sufficiently.
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“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a Warrior, and he will bring the others back.” -Heraclitus, 480 BC
For me, being a Warrior is a state of mind expanding beyond military service. Police, Fire, and many civilians such as teachers who fight to protect their students from attackers, and parents who've never fired even a pellet gun who battle against intruders intent on harm are Warriors. How far am I willing to go, for how long, and for whom. 2,500 years from now no one will really care what my military job was, but instead, if I did everything I could do for all.
That's my two cents.
Former Army Medic
Veteran of Desert Storm, and OIF.
For me, being a Warrior is a state of mind expanding beyond military service. Police, Fire, and many civilians such as teachers who fight to protect their students from attackers, and parents who've never fired even a pellet gun who battle against intruders intent on harm are Warriors. How far am I willing to go, for how long, and for whom. 2,500 years from now no one will really care what my military job was, but instead, if I did everything I could do for all.
That's my two cents.
Former Army Medic
Veteran of Desert Storm, and OIF.
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What would be the purpose? We are / were all gears in the machine supporting one and all and with out the Medic, supply clerk, pilot, SEAL, Marine nothing would run as it should. We are all on the same team and as a team recognition goes to the whole. Setting aside or assigning extra recognition knocks moral down in the rest of the MOS's each are just as important.
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One team, one fight, everyone has a job to do, some are more glorious than others. The respects is already there. My grunt friends crap on my CAB because it's not a CIB, the Blue Cord, the Stetson, Spurs, tanker boots, berets, qualification badges, etc.....be proud of your MOS, and don't go looking for kudos, earn them and they'll come. I have a lot more respect for a combat patch than most other things. In my little mind if you haven't deployed since 2001 through 2012 you, well........get my drift.
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Sgt Joseph Baker
Marines can never figure out what all that stuff is you Army guys put on your uniforms anyway, it's very confusing this Army camouflage. My kids collected POGs when they were little and traded them around with their friends. Is that the same thing? Seriously though, you deploy to a combat theater anywhere within the range of any weapon the enemy has and you have my respect already, regardless of your job. Don't need a badge or a club to get it, unless you mean the American Legion or VFW.
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No. I don't think so. All Soldiers, are already warriors right after Boot-Camp. Heck before they even took a step inside MEPPS. We're all soldiers. We fight together. We Train together. We support each other. One family, One Nation, One Army. Hooah!
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I have to disagree with you on the moral foundation of your argument, because it actually goes against our values as Americans. Our country exist as a legally classless system, on the books nobody is better or worse than anybody else, and that is what makes our country the shining beacon of liberty that it is. As a Soldier, not a warrior, you have a responsibility of defending our Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic, by advocating for a "Warrior Class" you are undermining the values which you swore to defend. I'm paraphrasing, but by saying that you are better than other MOS's because of your job, you're also saying that you're better than the Americans who don't serve, which is by and large untrue. Service is a choice, you are paid for that choice, but don't ever think because of that choice you are better than the people you serve. Just my two cents, but people who want to be treated with a higher regard shouldn't be in the service industry.
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Sgt Joseph Baker
I get where they are coming from. Marines know they are better than everybody else too. We don't need people to tell us.
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This is stupid, a warrior is a warrior and a true patriot. No one is more special than next soldier and should treated the same .
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It most definitely is a put down lol. Your saying the infantry is better than all other Mos. But the infantry can't do everything on they're own. You may be a SFC and I'm only a SSG but if I ever meet you in person I've lost all respect for you as a man.
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Sgt Joseph Baker
Yeah, how often do these members of he warrior class hunker down behind a wall waiting for support?
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Wow, I was an aircraft armament tech for six years on the Kiowa and you know what, if we dont fly, grunts die.
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