2006-12-30 20:28:15 · 17 answers · asked by Lakers 2010 Champs!!!! 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Anyone who has volunteered to defend the US is respected! Any branch!
2006-12-30 20:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by jh 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Anyone that serves in the military and defends their country is and should be respected...as for which one is respected more, of course anyone who is, was, or has a family member that is a Marine is going to say that the Marines are better, vice a versa for the Army and so on....all the branches are equally as important and should be respected all the same!!
2006-12-30 20:38:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've been in the service for almost 10years now and have worked with all branches of the military. I'm in the Air Force (not mentioned!) but I've been in charge of a few soldiers and marines while deployed in Afghanistan last year. I don't agree with it but the Marines always have the most respect. Air Force is always depicted as the weakest branch but it will always come down to the individual service man or woman. Some people are born leaders and followers while others are just present for duty!
2006-12-31 04:17:36 · answer #3 · answered by Dave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While there will always be competitiveness between the branches, all services are noble, and deserve the same respect. I was in the Corps from 94-98. My father just retired from the Army. My uncles and grandfathers served in the AF, Navy, and Marine Corps as well. We are all veterans, deserving the same respect, even if we all joke about "who it better".
Marines are Marines, those in the Army are called Soldiers. Even though we all respect one another, Marines do not like to be called Soldiers, and vice versa. A former employer of mine used to always refer to me as "had been in the Army", and never understood why I always corrected him. He would tell me that they are the same thing. I would tell him "no, they are not"
2006-12-30 21:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends who you talk to. There is always interservice rivalry, but the general perception (among people outside the military) is that Marines are more elite than Army soldiers, which leads to more respect. If you start talking about Army Rangers or Paratroopers compared to Marines it's pretty even (or there may be an advantage for the Rangers).
2006-12-30 20:42:27 · answer #5 · answered by waefijfaewfew 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in the Army for 5 years and I worked with a lot of Marines in Kuwait, Iraq, and Kosovo. Plus, I currently attend college on the MGIB with a few prior service Marines. I have always had the argument with the Marines about who is better but what it always boils down to is: you have good Soldiers and Marines, and you have bad Soldiers and Marines.
My unit got a few prior service Marines who came in the Army because they thought it was going to be "easier" than the Marine Corps. We had to kick out one and reassign the other one because one was malingering and the other one was an idiot. For some reason each one of them had it in their brain that the Army did not deploy or ever see combat?
I also had to pull a 12 hour guard shift in Kuwait with some Marines and I ended up having to feed a few of them because not a single one of them had the foresight to bring any food with them on a 12 hour duty!!!!! I won't go into what the Marines did in Kosovo but it involves losing a bunch of munitions in the countryside!
Lastly, I believe a lot of the inter-service rivalry has to do with each service not knowing much about the other. Marines always want to bring up the fact that their Boot camp is longer than the Army's but what they don't understand is that the Drill Sergeants don't go away at the end of Basic Training in the Army. I had Drill Sergeants breathing down my neck from August 2000-May 2001, all the way through Basic Training and Intel school!!! That is slightly more than 12 weeks! Plus if you do Airborne and Ranger school you are looking at upwards of 15 weeks of more training.
Point being, the missions are completely different and no one service is better than another one. I've met AF guys I can guarantee could make it through all Marine Corps and Army training without a problem. What it boils down to is what you want to do in the military. The Marines are comprised of mostly combat arms jobs with very few support jobs. If you want a very technical job or want to be a medic in the Marines, you are screwed. They have very few computer jobs and their medics come from the Navy.
No one service is better than another but individuals can certainly be more capable than each other.
2006-12-31 05:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by SL 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the person. Most marines I've known were too preoccupied with showing the world how cool they are because they're marines. And disparaging other branches as worthless because they're not the Corps. Says alot does'nt it? If respectable. Why do they have to constantly preen and disparage?
2006-12-30 22:09:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Army, Navy Marines etc they are all well respected in my book. LOVE ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!
2006-12-30 20:53:45 · answer #8 · answered by STEPHANIE S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marines are the best. Semper Fi!
2006-12-30 20:31:30 · answer #9 · answered by Latin_Lvr 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Soldiers and Marines are the same thing. They're all soldiers.
2006-12-30 20:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋