Inter-Service Rivalry

I see no harm at all. There's a video going around on Facebook about an Airman and a Marine comparing each others' fitness tests. Pretty funny stuff.

At the end of the day, we all wear a uniform that says "U.S."

 

I had a cousin who's parents became very upset at me when o teased him about not having a "real" deployment. He deployed to Kuwait in 2012. I had a hard time convincing them that nothing bad was meant of it, and that he would get that from anyone who's been to a combat zone.

But even inside the same branch, you have "rivalries" from other MOSs. As a 12B, I constantly tease 11B that I do the same thing they do. I just have to be smarter and know more. On the flip side, 11B tease us and say that if we really want to be grunts, we should come train with them and learn how to donate job properly. In reality, 12B and 11B are perfect brothers, some of the tightest MOSs out there.



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Along those lines, one day I came home from school and told told my wife, "A guy said something to me today that I would only let an engineer get away with."

A little background: I am a sapper by the definition of the word. A 12B is literally a sapper. But some people don't think you're a sapper unless you're tabbed, which is not true. I can bear the moniker sapper, but I am not tabbed, so I don't wear the tab. But the tab was a part of my old company's PT shirt.

I was wearing it to school one day, and a guy saw it and asked, "Are you a sapper?" I answered yes. He asked, "When did you go to sapper school?" I immediately responded, "You mean sapper leader training? Never." (It's not technically 'sapper school' but sapper leader training'). He understood, but still wanted to give me flack. He said, "So you're just a power, then?" I started to get flustered until he laughed and explained that he too was an engineer.

It's perfectly alright to tease someone (especially Don, the air force puke) as long as it's understood to be teasing. But if someone on the outside tried to tease, I'd shut them up by asking what they did.

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I've written this before, but I still think it's funny.

How to tell which branch they served in:
Marines: Oo-rah
Navy: Hoo-rah
Army: Hoo-ah
Air Force: Who? Wha?

(Still working on one for Coasties)

 

When I was in the Navy the Marines and Navy had some rivalry and not always fun.

I could say Marines were just sailors that wear funny uniforms but I like my head where it is presently located so I won't say it (explanation: in the 59-60s the Corp was under the dept. of Navy, have no idea if that is still the case.)

 

Who Save!... Btw... Our preacher was a retired Coastie... Brother Glen