What branch of service do you prefer?

[Red Oct]

new people w/ different opinions, if your in the service be descriptive what you do. most of my family has served in the U.S. Navy, have a older sister whos a Cheif Peddy on the U.S.S Carl Vincenent whos currently goin for Master Chief. duno yet weather or not if i wana join the service, if i do it would either be in the army w/ my friend whos leaving later this month, or the navy. like my other family memebers.

[Harnu]

Marine Corps. USMC are some of the baddest people to deal with in a war. The Airforce is cool too. Very hi tech now. Army is so-so to me. Navy, well, heh. I like the marines, that can help you infer on the navy. But the part I do like are the Navy Seals.

[ran]

the LANDFORCES
serving as engineer in the french army ......
the army , especially the engineers

[KingBeast]

I chose the Marines, though not meaning the USMC I admire the Royal Marine Corps a lot, and think they are bloody tough rarstards

[Major Fubar]

Ooh, this one again!

Can we have a "who's the best special forces" one too?

[KingBeast]

No we cant, because we all know that the SAS are the best.

j/k... flame bait

Marines, but I'm not thinking about USMC either
The Swedish Amphibious Corps with all its Kustjägare (Costal Rangers), Attackdykare (Attack divers) and regular Amfibiesoldater (Marines)

... although I might be a bit biased in that question

But every branch has its purpose:

Navy - Sombody needs to transport us to the action
Army - Somebody needs to hold the territory that we captured
Airfoce - Ummm... I don't know. I don't think the airforce is needed at all

[DarkLight]

Hmmm, can anyone explain the difference between all of those?
I hear everybody talking about them but i don't know what's the difference...

[KingBeast]

They are as Denoir described, though the airforce obviously are used to hold the air, and Marines are like the navy's infantry. I think all ships of the line back in the earlier centuries would have a team of marines on board and mainly they were used as a boarding party. Nowadays I think they are still mainly oriented around aval operations (landings, diving etc), but they also do some of the same stuff as normal army infantry.

Coast guard nd National guard I really dont know much about.

[RalphWiggum]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (denoir @ Aug. 11 2002,13:16)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Navy - Sombody needs to transport us to the action
Army - Somebody needs to hold the territory that we captured
Airfoce - Ummm... I don&#39;t know. I don&#39;t think the airforce is needed at all [/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
yeah...wait till enemy&#39;s jet fighters bomb your Navy ships and obliterate the your army that was guarding the place you just took away from enemy.

i say airforce should not be taken granted. air superiority has proven to be a significant advantage in certain situations.

Coast Guards (in US) basically take care of US&#39;s waters. They act more like police.

National Guards...hmm...don&#39;t know that much, but they are state-based, state-sponsored military segment.(not sure on this though)