Differences between the general atmospheres in each branch

There is always a kernel of truth in these types of comparisons...

Haircuts:
  • Marines: Heads will be shaved.
  • Army: Stylish flat-top's for all recruits.
  • Navy: No haircut standard.
  • Air Force: Complete makeovers as seen on the Jenny Jones show.
Training Hours:
  • Marines: Reveille at 0500, train until 2000.
  • Army: Reveille at 0600, train until 1900.
  • Navy: Get out of bed at 0900, train until 1100, lunch until 1300, train until 1600.
  • Air Force: Awaken at 1000, breakfast in bed, train from 1100 to 1200, lunch at 1200, train from 1300 to 1400, nap at 1400, awaken from nap at 1500, training ceases at 1500.
Meals:
  • Marines: Meals, Ready-to-Eat 3 times a day.
  • Army: One hot meal, 2 MRE's.
  • Navy: 3 hot meals.
  • Air Force: Catered meals prepared by the Galloping Gourmet, Julia Child, and Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasse. All you can eat.
Leave And Liberty:
  • Marines: None.
  • Army: 4 hours a week.
  • Navy: 2 days a week.
  • Air Force: For every four hours of training, recruits will receive eight hours of leave and liberty.
Protocol:
  • Marines: Will address all officers as "Sir," and refer to the rank of all enlisted members when speaking to them (i.e., Sgt. Smith).
  • Army: Will address all officers as "Sir," unless they are friends, and will call all enlisted personnel "Sarge."
  • Navy: Will address all officers as "Skipper," and all enlisted personnel as "Chief."
  • Air Force: All Air Force personnel shall be on a first name basis with each other.
Decorations/Awards:
  • Marines: Medals and badges are awarded for acts of gallantry and bravery only.
  • Army: Medals and badges are awarded for every bullet fired, hand grenade thrown, fitness test passed, and bed made.
  • Navy: Will have ships' engineers make medals for them as desired.
  • Air Force: Will be issued all medals and badges, as they will most likely be awarded them at some point early in their careers anyway.
Camouflage Uniforms:
  • Marines: Work uniform, to be worn only during training and in field situations.
  • Army: Will wear it anytime, anywhere.
  • Navy: Will not wear camouflage uniforms, they do not camouflage you on a ship. (Ship Captains will make every effort to attempt to explain this to sailors.)
  • Air Force: Will defeat the purpose of camouflage uniforms by putting blue and silver chevrons and colorful squadron patches all over them.
Career Fields:
  • Marines: All Marines shall be considered riflemen first and foremost.
  • Army: It doesn't matter, all career fields promote to E-8 in first enlistment anyway.
  • Navy: Nobody knows. The Navy is still trying figure out what sailors in the ABH, SMC, BNC and BSN rates do anyway.
  • Air Force: Every recruit will be trained in a manner that will allow them to leave the service early to go on to higher paying civilian jobs.

Above is why this Marine pointed his son towards the Air Force. When the Air Force pulls up in the desert with air conditioned tents, while our air conditioning came from rolling up the sides of our hootch, I was sold. My boy could have gone to all of the Academies, I just always pointed out the QoL in the air force sure beats the hell out of living in the field or on a ship for months at a time.
 
Among the numerous plains in these charts, are spots available from each of the academies (obviously depending on need at the time) to fly these air craft? To be more specific, if there is a need, can you get to any of these aircraft from an academy?
To be blunt, you won't get any of these aircraft (not plains!) from an academy. You can, however, get to these aircraft through excelling at pilot training and based upon the needs of the services.
 
Above is why this Marine pointed his son towards the Air Force. When the Air Force pulls up in the desert with air conditioned tents, while our air conditioning came from rolling up the sides of our hootch, I was sold. My boy could have gone to all of the Academies, I just always pointed out the QoL in the air force sure beats the hell out of living in the field or on a ship for months at a time.

Ditto.

Back in the Stone Age when I was in the Marines, like all my buddies, I tended to regurgitate all the wonderfully profane and funny insults taught by the Corps, from Day 1 at Parris Island, which disparaged out fellow armed services and promoted our sense of innate superiority to all others.

Until one day, when stationed at Camp Kinser in Okinawa, I went along with a friend to visit his cousin at the nearby Kadena Air Force base. Compared to our pitiful cinder-block barracks romored to have been built by the Japanese army pre-1945 (and where gecko lizards were treasured pets because they ate their body weight in mosquitoes every day), we found this 19 year old E-2 airman was living in a two-man room, with wall lockers, a bathroom with shower, with a refrigerator (stocked with brewskies! - strictly taboo in our barracks in those days), TV set with brand-new VCR (!), air conditioning, etc. Practically a condo!

In the cab back to our base, we came to the bitter conclusion that maybe the Air Force might have been a better enlistment option. We no longer laughed about the "Air Farce" or "Chair Force". No sir. To make matters worse, we had our annual gas chamber training a couple of days later. Jeeze.

Still, we got the dress blues. At least we got the dress blues.
 
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard. You are all bad asses!!!
I thank you all for your commitment to defend the USA.
Every branch of the service is critical to mission success.
I am so proud of everyone in uniform!
Forge on and keep kicking ass...
 
Every branch of the service is critical to mission success.
Damn straight! At the end of the day, getting the mission done right is what matters most! And in today's world, every service needs to know how to work together jointly to meet our nation's objectives and complete the mission.
 
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