Call me old fashioned but the thought of being carried through Wooton Bassett in a box just doesn't appeal to me.
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Call me old fashioned but the thought of being carried through Wooton Bassett in a box just doesn't appeal to me.
Ditto. Hence why I'm not unhappy at not having gone into the airforce.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
Tough call. Whatever had the coolest toys to play with. (I'm a studying engineer)
I am quite sure the poor stiff in the box didn't think it appealed to him, but he unlike you or I felt what he was joining for was worth that risk. No one else in society goes to work knowing that their job might entail dying to support the society that you protect....Police have a simliar function but really don't face the same danger as a soldier in a combat situation.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
I think there's a certain wastefulness to it though. If I knew my life was going to do something I think I'd have a different attitude to it, but what's happening in Iraq and Afghanistan is just a waste of young livesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
For an island nation like the UK surely the Navy and Air Force is more importance than the Army.
And the Marines have harder training than the Army.
In the US military, it is the Army.....as it is in Canada....Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
I always thought the Navy was more important. The US Navy has more fighter jets than most countries Air Forces and more Marines than most countries Armies have soldiers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Strategically the US Navy actually is a bigger influence than the Army or Air Force, so I would agree BUT in the minds of many Americans, the Army is the Senior service. Britian, being a seafaring island nation of course will look to its Navy as being the senior service with the most prestige, but in the US, it is the Army. The force created from the regulars that George Washington cobbled together in 1776 is the oldest branch of the US Military.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
The Army may be the senior service, but when the President dials 911, he gets the US Navy. In less than 48 hours he can have an acre of sovereign US territory parked off someone's coast anywhere in the world conducting flight operations, and delivering Marines into the hot zone. It takes the Army MONTHS to get moving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Our strong Navy came directly from our friends across the pond, because until World War II, the Royal Navy was second to none, and a lot of our naval traditions come straight from the Her Majesty's Navy