If you were forced through military service to join one of the armed forces would you choose?
Army?
Air Force?
Navy?
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If you were forced through military service to join one of the armed forces would you choose?
Army?
Air Force?
Navy?
I served in the Navy for 6 years and am really apprecitive of all I got out of them.
Navy. No question about it.
Army
I think the RAF has always seemed has always appeared more glamorous than the Army, especially now with toys like the Typhoon to look at!
But the Royal Navy has all the history. Is there anything that looks more powerful than an aircraft carrier?
You forgot the best one: Marine Corps.
I almost went into the Navy's Nuclear Power Program out of high school. Not a bad deal: great training, great education in a (then) growing field and you ended up as an officer with a Bachelors of Science upon completion. But my family convinced me that being in a tin can under the ocean, and taking orders about when to eat, sleep and sh## probably didn't suit my personality, so I passed at the last minute. Still, I wonder what may have been if I had gone that route.
Other than that, I've always had a great fascination with the Air Force. Not that I could have been a pilot, but the fighter jockeys from past wars always intrigued me.
A torpedo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
For me it would be the RAF, but only if I could become a pilot. Being the bog cleaner doesn't really interest me..... :dozey:
Air Force for sure....I grew up reading the stories of the fighter pilots of the RAF and the Battle of Britain, but when I realized a) they don't fly Spitfires no more, and b) at 6'2" 200 lbs I wasn't going to fit in any fighter the Canadian Armed Forces bought, I realized if I joined the Air Force, I would likely be in support somewhere or flying a Herc.....
Never bit the bullet and joined up tho...
Navy is the best of both worlds :p
http://www.armedforces.co.uk/navy/listings/navycvfb.jpg
That is of course assuming the put on a carrier. The only way to almost guarntee that is to be a pilot. Any other trade in the Navy and you could be serving on a tincan looking for Russky's in the North Sea!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
When it comes down to it the Army runs the show. That is where I liked to be. Running the show
I guess Marines just sit on their ass and twiddle their thumbs. Maybe we should get rid of Recon, I mean, not as if they were literally the first troops to cut through Iraq and make it past Baghdad.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
That was probably intentional :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
Navy all the way. That said, my Dad, young brother, and two of my son's were/are Army, and I can't for the life of me figure THAT one out :D
At my age and health it would have to be where I can sit down.
No more tree drops.
I was forced to satisfy a military service and I chose to apply for a medical exoneration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
The army is where you are most likely to be shot at while walking slowing towards machine gun emplacements.
Navy you are likely to drown or be burned to death in an enclosed space.
Airforce you are quite likely to be bombed, but they are also most likely to be away from the front line, unless you are a pilot, of course.
I had a similar problem. Plus my eye-sight wasn't probably good enough. So, when they asked where I'd like to serve, I answered "whatever". The next I knew I found myself 400 km north-east in field artillery in a small town I had to look up on a map.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
Air Force. I did originally intend to join but it just didn't happen.
That's a tank crew job for you then. You need some space to carry the important stuff, like your ass. My most important piece of equipment in military exercises was my pillow, never went anywhere without it. :D Or without a coffee maker, or cardboard plates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Easy Drifter
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
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Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
At the top of thier payroll check it clearly say Dept of the U. S. Navy.
bet some of you didn't know that.
as for being stuck on a tincan, its true you have to be careful what your assigned to and where the training is. The Navy has many different arms of service. Until recently [1080's] some where not even mentioned.
The marines do an outstanding job. I mean them no disrespect.Quote:
Originally Posted by gloomyDAY
But every in major military action by the United States the Top Commander has always been an Army General.
Pershing, Eisenhower, MaCarthur, Westmoreland, Schwarzkopf, Petraeus...All Army.
But I am not in the UK. My opinion is based on my US Nationality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
I'd try for MI5 if the option was there.
Failing that (and I would :rolleyes: ) I guess I'd be an sailor of sorts. Getting seasick isn't as bad as getting shot in a scummy desert.
I refer to the headings of sergeon general and admiral. True you'rs are noted and deserving but look at the US chain of command and see just how many are Navy trained and the others have served under multible branches of the military.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
You do realize that the Surgeon General is not a branch of the military?Quote:
Originally Posted by swoop
Sure any supreme commander has some naval and Air force knowledge but they all graduated from West Point. Not Annapolis or Colorado Springs.
yes I am aware of that. I was merely saying it took more than just army training to be on the staff of decision makers.Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonyvop
west point like annapolis and coorado springs breeds leaders and all should be recognized as more than just enlisted military.
And yes its commonly known without west point so far you can't br there. However west point is not an army training center. its a political training center.
It is both.Quote:
Originally Posted by swoop
The army. Everything else is for pussies.
MASH!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow