Should the military create a warrior class?

Disagree you can't possibly place line infantry in the same class as operators. So what class do you designate them? Why does everyone feel they deserve recognition for the job they chose to do. You aren't the first, probably aren't the best and won't be the last. How demoralizing for your support units for an infantryman to think the rest of the army is beneath them. Without them you wouldn't have the things you need or the protection. You think that Kiowa pilot is less of a soldier than you? Or the mechanic that works relentless hours to make sure your vehicles are running? This is just ridiculous and for it to come from a senior NCO is embarrassing.

I totally disagree with this statement...I have been privileged to have been both a Marine Infantry NCO and also an Army Officer (LG) and in my logistics career I spent more time off the FOB on the road in imminent danger than I ever did as an infantryman....so this comment is not only demoralizing to all "non combatents" but also factually untrue...

We already are having one established for us with the end of the draft and over a decade of war in the Middle East.

he must be joking

I started to give you a thumbs down, but I'll refrain. You surely aren't living up to the Army Values at this moment. Every MOS the Army has to offer is important. We are a team, and one doesn't work without the other. When your guys get wounded do they not need a medic? At that moment that medic is the most important. When your guys needs supplies to do their mission, do they not need that quartermaster Soldier? At that moment that quartermaster is the most important. When your guys are not getting paid for that promotion they just got or they are waiting for something important in the mail do they not need that finance and AG Soldier? At that moment finance and AG are the most important. So for you to post such a post is asinine. We all work hard to keep the Army going. And at the end of the day, just like you, ALL Soldiers are expected and are required to be able pick up a weapon and to hit the ground running and fight and kill all enemies of the United States of America, foreign or domestic!

You are not really serious? Are you?

I bet your part that yoing group that got a "Participation Trophy". Witjout winning a thing. Respect is earned, your on a team and need all parts to be effective.

Typical cocky grunt. Nobody takes away from what infantry, grunts or operators do. Hell if anybody deserves more respect its operators. Those small group of elite who sure as hell have done more than general infantry. One team one fight. It takes every mos/job to make everything work.

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Just an ordinary civilian here....never served ( although I did get offered to join post college as an OCS candidate, which I stupidly turned down ....oh well, roads not taken.....anyway.....) - seems like the vast majority of responses favor no special treatment of a "warrior class", pointing out that everyone on the team contributes, and sacrifices in their own way. I think that most folks recognize the unofficial pecking order anyway, and know who's a member of the warrior class or not. As others have pointed out, certain roles are inherently more dangerous than others, but one can never be certain as to what one can be called upon to do in any role. As many have pointed out, it takes the entire team to make it all happen, or else the "warriors" can't function. My father served as an officer in the Merchant Marine in WW2 in the engine room - in spite of this, he still was wounded in a "skirmish" with a U-Boat, and suffered for the remainder of his life with those wounds - one would never consider his specialty as being one of those in the warrior class, but he sacrificed his body just as much as a Marine would have on Iwo Jima.