Posted on Dec 1, 2015
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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.
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I see a lot of negative votes for you and I disagree with that. Everyone has a right to an opinion. But to your point, in a war like we currently fight mos is immaterial. Soldiers of every job have face the challenges of this war and have seen combat. I've done just as many tours as many in combat mos' and been engaged as well.
That said combat arms is choice. And your Blue is your recognition. Other than that somebody might get you a cookie but that's about it... Ask yourself could you do the job of an aviation mechanic. Or a parachute rigger, or a cook, ammunition specialist, or any other of the 150+ careers. Bottom line without your CS and CSS you would lose. Period. Read any book about war and the one tactic that has always made a country win is attack the supply line. You can't win without beans and bullets, intelligence and communication, 11B so maybe now you can see us in equal regard.
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SGT Joshua Coppola
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You get recognition, blue cord, blue disc backers, and a blue backed badge. Beyond that, you're the same as every other person in the military, you wake up, do your job, go to sleep and repeat. 11B, then 89D, so I've been on both sides of the argument.
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SGT Greg Gold
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Warriors, come out and play-aye!!

That was the dumbest thing I've read in a long time.
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Cpl Evan Kikla
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Completely agree. And what a lot of higher ups are missing is you treat your Infantry like shit compared to your pogs.

When I was a grunt I worked longer hours, did more miserable work, and statistically promoted less and promoted slower than many peers on the pog side. So you might think everyone ought to get treated the same but we have a way to go even to that goal.
Additionally the infantry is the heart and soul of the corps. A little bit of deference would he appreciated. In the old days this was called common sense, or "you look like an asshole kicking grunts out the chow line for being dirty when they just got to the rear after a month in the field" but we don't have that today.
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SN Greg Wright
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Cpl Evan Kikla Sure. So you go do your thing. And the cooks who feed you will feed someone else. The medics who tend to you when you're wounded will tend someone else. The logistics types who get you your weapons and ammo, will send them to someone else. The intel weenies who would tell you where there's a group of the enemy about to ambush you, will turn their attention, and tell someone else.

Let's see how your elite self does then?
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SGT Romeo Reyes
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Can't be done. Someone high up in the chain will just smack it down and we'll have another "Give the Black Beret Away" fiasco......
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SPC Christopher Renkel
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Without Intel would they even know where the fight is?
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SPC Ryan Medders
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So i guess you've never been to a motorpool. You know, when 11b's break their stuff and a 91b has to fix it, then gets voluntold for some patrol after that. Or has to go pull a burnt up truck back to the motorpool then turn around and pull convoy security. Yeah, but they don't deserve the same level of respect... yeah that makes sense
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SGT Ait Student
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Wow... This is sad
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PV2 Harry Swensen
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You anti warrior elites are all WRONG in your insipid weak ass PC view the ARMY TEAM(All Equal) is "everything" at the expense of the SHARP edge/KILLERS. There is MISSION and the SUPPORT of MISSION. WE are to KILL the enemy not cook,fuel or civil affairs him to death. The Green machine is NOT about social experiments ,social advancement or "all men are created equal" BS, it is about WINNING at all cost,not "koom-bi-yah" were all equal at all cost.
BRAVE RIFLES.
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SSG Military Police
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What a can of worms you have opened.. I worked as an MP for a Special Operations Command for over 13 yrs.. Operators, Rangers and most 11B's that have been in the "shit" receive their due respect and high regards.. That said.. I NEVER felt like I was "less" of a Soldier or "less" deserving of respect because I was "just'" an MP.. These "warriors" always treated us like family.. maybe because they slept under the protection my guys provided. and YES.. we have beed toe-to-toe with the enemy with them as well. The only difference is training. Anyone can apply for Special Operations... and 11B was offered to everyone that joined. ONE TEAM, ONE FIGHT.. no one can do it alone...
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