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A couple of years ago, I was eating breakfast in a hotel in Las Cruces, NM.
About ten young guys in flying suits came in to eat breakfast.
Several times a year, Corpus Christi Navy guys deploy to Cruces to indulge in that big blue sky.
They got food and were sitting all around me. It was about this time of the year.
That means cool mornings and warmer mid days and evenings.
I noticed that only one guy had on a jacket.
Do I asked him 'Why are you the only guy with a jacket?'
He replied, I am a Marine. A Marine is always equipped and ready for any situation.
The rest of these guys are all Navy. Us Marines have to take care of the Navy.
I said that's interesting. The next time you deploy up here you might want to tell the Navy guys to bring their jackets.
 
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My favorite is some version of:

If you given the order "SECURE THE BUILDING" what the different branches of the US military would do:

The Navy would turn out the lights and lock the doors.

The Army would surround the building with defensive fortifications, tanks and barbed wire.

The Marine Corps would assault the building, using overlapping fields of fire from all appropriate points on the perimeter.

The Air Force would take out a three-year lease with an option to buy.
 
I've shared a hole/paddy/ditch with many a Marine or a AF FAC. I've had a few hairy rides on a Swift boat. The thing I learned early on was that when the shooting starts, any one of us would sacrifice whatever was needed for our fellow Americans. Interservice rivalries are just fun. My favorite was when I'd be sitting in a bar with my Dad (WWII and Korea Marine) and the bartender would ask if I had been a Marine, my answer was always. "Do I look that stupid to you?" My Dad would give me the "evil eye" and see that I was grinning and break out laughing. I sure miss him. :)
 
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I've shared a hole/paddy/ditch with many a Marine or a AF FAC. I've had a few hairy rides on a Swift boat. The thing I learned early on was that when the shooting starts, any one of us would sacrifice whatever was needed for our fellow Americans. Interservice rivalries are just fun. My favorite was when I'd be sitting in a bar with my Dad (WWII and Korea Marine) and the bartender would ask if I had been a Marine, my answer was always. "Do I look that stupid to you?" My Dad would give me the "evil eye" and see that I was grinning and break out laughing. I sure miss him. :)
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That rreminds me of two great movies with inter-service rivalry fights. To Hell and Back (Actually--Army vs Army--but was Infantry vs the Air Corps)and also On Wings of Eagles. My favorite part of Eagles was the fight between Navy and Army. :D

Honorable mention: No Time For Sergeants: USAF vs Army.
 
Having fun between military branches.:cool:

In the workplace there were several Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard vets. And of course their branch was always the best.

I always would tell the Marine members how much I respected them.

They would always ask me why?

I'd say, because they could get you guys to do things they couldn't get us Army guys to do.;):)
 
A buddy of mine was in the Navy during the Vietnam era. He's told me several stories of USN/USMC fights. One night in the Philippines one of their shipmates got so drunk that they were wheeling him around in a wheel chair. Some Marines started a fight with them but they left the wheel chair dude alone, assuming that he was in some way injured. He honorably (or stupidly) stood up to fight alongside his pals. When the Jarheads saw that they all turned on him and beat him even more senseless than he already was from the liquor.
 
I used to always love it when we would happen to be on a long flight and stop at a Air Force base to refuel. Since the AF had a guy to drive the fuel truck, one to hook up the ground cable and one to turn the fuel on and off, they would freak when we would figure the fuel loads for the 4 tanks and give the figures to the pilots ( O-1 through O-5) and let them fuel while the other crewman and myself would climb up the side to do the pre-flight.
Once we were in the chopper on a flight, there was no us and them it was we.
Larry
 
When I joined the Navy, my father asked me, "Why didn't you go into the Air Force like your Uncle and me?"

I looked him straight in the eye and said, "Dad, I really considered the Air Force, but I kind of wanted to be in the military." Wow! Was that a bad choice! He screwed himself 3 feet into the ceiling. He came around once he visited Pensacola and saw what we were doing (being trained by MARINES! :eek:).
 
When my older brother was looking at joining the military (1966) my Dad (Naval Air Corps, WW2 and Korea) told us that no matter which branch you joined, join the air wing. The air wing of any branch lived the best. When I got around to enlisting Dad had been dead a couple years and I joined Army Field Artillery. Dad was right.
 
My boss is a tad older than I, and a Vietnam vet. When he became my boss about 14 years ago, and when I asked him, he told me he was a supply procurement NCO in the Air Force before he retired. I thought, "yep, an Air Farce bean counter."

A few years ago, he opened up a little more, and told me he'd initially been in Air Police over in 'Nam.

This year I participated in bringing "The Moving Wall" to our town. It was THEN that I learned he'd earned a SILVER STAR in one of many nasty firefights he was in . . . riding the back of an Air Force jeep firing an M-60 near "Monkey Mountain" I believe he called it. I also learned he'd served two tours in Vietnam and escorted/guarding a lot of convoys from Saigon to one air base or another.

Last week we were sitting in a meeting where I was running sound and presentation video, and he was riding shotgun to my right. I said something and he squinted like he was aggravated as he tried to listen to me. It was THEN I learned for the first time that he is nearly deaf in his left ear from his time in Vietnam, guarding B-52s . . . for there were times when he couldn't listen for other sounds with earmuffs on.

Yep . . . some folks don't talk much . . .
 
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Air Force Communications; An airman using the latest in electronic satellite equipment and high speed radio.

Navy Communications; A seaman using the ELF system and most advanced above and below sea com equipment.

Army Communications; A soldier using secret coded ultra high tech equipment.

Marine Communications; Tossing a troop out of a C130 with a note in his hand.

Love all our services and those who serve in them.
 
biggest fight I ever started: while in guam I was sitting between a marine and a sailor in a club. I asked the marine if he knew why the marine corps were formed. I told him the sailor on the other side of me said it was because the army formed the K-9 corps and the navy got jealous. I stepped back just in time. love the old days. lee
 
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