What is it about America? Does America's education system just suck?

[CaseyTheAthie]

Casey, I love how in the same post you call the army gay ass and then go on to extol the virtues of infantry. You do realize that the army is mainly infantry, right? At any rate, what sort of U.S. soldier are you that denigrates other branches of the same military? Are you a soldier at all? If so, I'm thinking Marines. That is the only branch that promotes dickheadery as if it were a good quality.

Edit: Haha, read on and saw that you are in the Marines. How predictable. A soldier is a soldier. Don't be an elitist prick. I pay your salary.

No ma'am you don't. You haven't for a couple years now. And unless you were in the military yourself you would never understand why each service talks crap on all the others. And no a soldier is in the army, a sailor is in the navy(or Coast Guard), a marine is in the marine corps, and an airman is in the air force. They are all VERY different. There are different requirements, roles, mission types and many more things a regular civilian that isn't in some way directly related to the military (civilian contractor, government employee, or former service member) wouldn't fully grasp or even really have a need to.

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Whoever says the military is mostly infantry is out of their damned mind! A very small part (10-15%) is actualy infantry/ combat arms (thats everybody from attack helo pilots to combat engineers) the rest is support in the form of Maintenance, Supply, and Ordnance. Again, do not assume you know anything about the military if you aren't directly related to it in some way (as I said in my previous post) or have a source that is and isnt just blowing smoke out their rear.

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The infantry makes up less than 10% of US Army forces.

There are at least 20 other branches of the United States Army. Unless quite a few of them make up a very small percentage of the Army, we are left with infantry making up the greatest percentage. Furthermore, it is 15%, not less than 10.

http://www.army.mil/article/45200/infant...d-demands/

The very first infantry unit in the United States was army. The very first fighting force we had was army. General George Washington was an army soldier. All of the stryker units you saw deployed in Iraq were army. Personally, I think every branch has its own merits, and I have nothing against Marines as a fighting force. I just think their attitude sucks. In my experience, Marines have a tendency to be brainwashed elitist knuckle draggers. I don't mean that as a blanket statement, as there are exceptions. However, I have never met an Army soldier as ball-grabbing and condescending as a Marine. It really isn't just my experience. They have different expectations as far as attitude.

You've never worked hand in hand with them have you? haha! I love hearing this stuff though for real. There are huge dicks in every service. (Meet an air force guy in the Security Forces... because the initials for it is SF they like to play like they're special forces... hilarious when real, Rangers, SEALs, Recon or anyone else strike them down.)