This gave me a good chuckle. Thanks.You can always tell which posts are from Marines (written of course by someone else because Marines don't know how to read and write).
This gave me a good chuckle. Thanks.You can always tell which posts are from Marines (written of course by someone else because Marines don't know how to read and write).
There is always a kernel of truth in these types of comparisons...
Haircuts:
Training Hours:
- 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.
Meals:
- 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.
Leave And Liberty:
- 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.
Protocol:
- 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.
Decorations/Awards:
- 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.
Camouflage Uniforms:
- 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.
Career Fields:
- 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.
- 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.
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.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?
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.
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.Every branch of the service is critical to mission success.