Is the sibling rivalry between members of the armed forces (Navy personnel v. Army, for instance) ever serious

Question

Or is it just light-hearted banter between serving comrades?

Answer 1

It's never that serious. What's a few thousand barfights between friends? :)

Some of my best friends used to be squids. :)

Answer 2

Bootnecks are continually good for a snigger... you may continually get them going by way of asking why they invaded Spain. Little blunder for the time of an workout... ignored the border with Gibraltar by way of plenty and landed on a Spanish sea coast. Load of them have been launched into Ark Royal previously the final Gulf war and between the matelots, being a touch clever @rse, did a effective little RM conflict honours poster, further Spain to the backside, and pinned it up above the front to the eating corridor. lots of the older, wiser booties had a wee snigger at it went to get their food. yet there is mostly a loose cannon waiting to fireplace, isn't there? And hearth he did, the 19 twelve months previous bootie no longer long out of coaching. Cue approximately 80 matelots taking the piss out of him, and greater or less twenty booties groaning into their dinner. finally one in all them desperate he'd take the lad off for a quiet rebriefing on a thank you to answer p!sstaking matelots, and element out that his approach (shouting for whichever w@nker had positioned the poster as much as get right here and get a kicking for it...) replaced into no longer the perfect approach. that's rivalry on the backside point. it is not something damaging and regularly it rather is friendly adequate until all people gets inebriated.... rivalry in the Joint Chiefs of group, this could be a distinctive tale. there is consistent bickering, because of the fact there is one vast economic pot for the militia and all people has to get a 'honest' decrease. in certainty, this suggests the army gets the main being the main important, and the army and the RAF share what's left. that's probably relatively damaging, and many the time all people is so busy battling their very very own corner they seem to forget we are all on the comparable edge.

Answer 3

It's for the most part good natured just like real siblings we may box once in awhile and it gets pretty heated out on the football field, but when the stuff hits the fan it doesnt matter if your Marines Army Navy Air Force or Coast Guard we got each others back. Its just because we as warriors are trained to be aggresive, when were spoilin for a fight if we cant find someone from another branch to duke it out with well go at it with another MOS, unit, company squad, or even another team in our squad, but its all in fun.

Answer 4

i dint know if sibling rivalry is the proper term but i am a very passionate person and was dedicated to whatever unit i served with at that time. i started as an infantryman then royal marines before RAOC then finishing up in 97 with RLC. we would compete verbally with other regiments and sometimes it came to serious blows, but if a civvy or outsider got involved we stood as one. i believe this is still the case. joining the services is like becoming part of a brotherhood. a squaddie will support another squaddie.

Answer 5

My husband is a sergant in the raf, and my dad in the army and so are my 2 brothers, theres always banter between them,but its just a joke.

Most of the people respect the other forces as there all doing good jobs.

Answer 6

My brother was a paratrooper in the British Army and my cousin was in the Navy. They both distinguished themselves within their own service.

Whenever they got together, they would both attack each other verbally about which one was in the better service, however, I know that if they were both involved in the same, or similar, conflict, they would each defend each other to the death.

Despite all the namecalling between the various forces, they are still all in the same business of defending Home and Crown, and this would transcend all namecalling.

Answer 7

I am in the Army and it is such a non-issue that I have never given any thought to it in the 8 years I have been in. There are jealousies; the Air Force is generally treated better then most other services. However they made that choice I made mine and I;m fine with that; plus I get promoted much faster and have more fun. Army Strong

Answer 8

Hell yeah, the Army kick at Aarse at rugby, sports, and basically everything they do. All doing the same worthwhile job, just Army a little more of a team rather than RAF/Navy being an organisation

Answer 9

Remember some great scraps between Navy and Pongos in my forces days. Even had a rumble or two with Marines trainees. Nothing big though - only pub brawls.

Answer 10

Nothing mega serious as the others say but being a navy family its always best to remind the other who the senior service is :-)

Answer 11

On the Field of sport, it is deadly serious, Exercises are competitively serious. In the respective ranks messes, amusingly serious.

On the battlefield it does not exist. all are servicemen or servicewoman who look after each other as best they can.