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I believe Infantry and Operators should be treated with a higher regard in the military.
Even officers and NCOs of all other military specialties should show respect to our nation's true warriors.
The general military is doing a good job of promoting everyone is a warrior but those non combat arms specialties do not train or destroy their bodies like true combatants. I would even say that infantry line medics and navy corpsman that are attached to the marines deserve the same regard.
This is not intended as a put down of other specialties but an awareness that some put in more than others in combat arms.
Even officers and NCOs of all other military specialties should show respect to our nation's true warriors.
The general military is doing a good job of promoting everyone is a warrior but those non combat arms specialties do not train or destroy their bodies like true combatants. I would even say that infantry line medics and navy corpsman that are attached to the marines deserve the same regard.
This is not intended as a put down of other specialties but an awareness that some put in more than others in combat arms.
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With the understanding that I am ignorant as to the training methods for the Marine Corps, it is my understanding that all Marines (male/female) regardless of MOS, are trained infantryman. I don't know if that is valid. I was not in the Marine Corps, I was in the Army and was in the Infantry (11Bravo)
With that being said, I find it hard to swallow the inference of a female Marine cook (for example) has the same combat skillset that I had going through the Army's Infantry School
With that being said, I find it hard to swallow the inference of a female Marine cook (for example) has the same combat skillset that I had going through the Army's Infantry School
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I agree with the one team, but history and the body count of MOSs tell a different story. I do not think you can make a warrior class inside the military. But, you can not compare a person fighting the enemy face to face with someone in the same military not fighting face to face. We need everyone to make a Military, but someone has to do the dirty deed of killing.
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Would you say the Security Forces (MPs of the Air Force) get this same higher regard?
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Look at what's happening to my community. In EOD we used to think we were special, the Army put a stop to that right quick.
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As a POG myself I really didn't know what to think about this myself. What I do know is that I have been on more missions both off and on island than any infantryman that I know with 6 or less year in the close to 4 years I have been in as well straining and breaking my body. Have you lifted 100's of pounds of wood every day or have to tear down and build structures back up, that shit ain't easy.
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I believe so. Pretty soon the infantry and specicial forces are going to be flooded with females.
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SN Greg Wright
MSG John Melville I don't think so. In fact, if there's more than, say, 30 female operators 10 years from now, I'll eat my shoe. Here's why:
Like males, most females won't even WANT to try to be special forces. Like most males, most females that do won't qualify. Like most males, of those that DO qualify, something like 80% will wash out (SEAL numbers, I think). Leaving 20% of already-disproportionately-small numbers to actually ever make it.
'Normal' infantry will have higher rates of females because the barrier to entry is much lower.
Like males, most females won't even WANT to try to be special forces. Like most males, most females that do won't qualify. Like most males, of those that DO qualify, something like 80% will wash out (SEAL numbers, I think). Leaving 20% of already-disproportionately-small numbers to actually ever make it.
'Normal' infantry will have higher rates of females because the barrier to entry is much lower.
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SN Greg Wright - The chances of you meeting a special operator( if they really exist, smirk) will never be known, because some operators are just that good. An example; I knew a man from my hometown who was a member of an A-team, but I didn't know it until he thought I should know. That was when we both were civilians.
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SFC (Join to see) SFC what difference would it make? We are all warriors no matter what our MOS is.
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