Is a US soldier more fit to fight in trenches than a US marine?

Is a US soldier more fit to fight in trenches than a US marine?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick ya mudda

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Soldier is a superset of Marine, are you mentally damaged (e.g. a US marine)?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm a /tourist/, from what I got the historical purpose of a marine (which means sailor in french) is to conquer the land coming from a boat (amphibious operations).
      That said there are marines bases that aren't near the sea. So I guess amphibious is not the main goal anymore and they devolved into a basic infantry grunt (thus competing with the us soldiers).

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >amphibious is not the main goal anymore
        That was pretty accurate during GWOT but FD 2030 is changing that. They are focusing more on South East Asia/ countering China now hence them getting rid of their tanks, standing up Littoral Regiments, procuring Landing Ship Mediums and a bunch of other shit

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sort of. They are focused way more on defending island nowadays. Moving more into anti ship and anti air platforms at the expense of everything including infantry and amphibious transports

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The original intent was that, yes. You would have a standing army for the mainland, and a ship-bound force for coastal protection and naval strikes.

        That changed with the two World Wars, where we saw the US Army being shipped overseas and and waging beach assaults. Granted, the Marines were sent to the Pacific for their specialization, but it was the Army storming Normandy.

        Ever since then, the US has waged various occupation style wars where they throw everything they’ve got at the enemy. This is especially obvious with Iraq and Afghanistan where both militaries (and even the coast guard) are standing around in an enemy nation indefinitely.

        Hopefully with that chapter behind us, and a threat of Chinese invasion, Marines can be repurposed once again to focus more on their true combat role.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'd have to imagine any general who doesn't get to send his troops into a war is going to b***h and moan about it nonstop.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >coast guard
          Man the US coast really does extend world wide.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, as Marines will engage in dangerous sexual practices which can lead to infections of lower gastrointestinal tract in unsanitary conditions of the trench warfare.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's more cost effective.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    A United States Marine surpasses a US Army soldier in every thinkable combat scenario.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bait, but lol, lmao even

      t. former 0331 now 11B

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        How the frick does that even happen?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I went "Huh, these Soldiers actually do the same job as us but with significantly less gay shit involved" in Iraq, EAS'd, and decided to jump ship to the Army.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Do you keep your paygrade doing that?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          This thread is fricking gayer than a marine and soldier fricking each other in a trench

          Army actually deploys more and has more schools to go through than the Marines along with a plethora of opportunities for doing cool things. Guess who runs Airborne school? Guess who runs the artillery school? Soldiers have more of a chance of seeing combat and being shot at due to where they're deployed at currently, such as Africa at the moment. Marines really only have MEU's and UDP's for deployments during peacetime or the MSG billet for being a glorified security guard. However, Big Army has more shady, dubious leadership practices due to having more of an officer and NCO bloat compared to the Marines. The Marines have more of a focus on their enlisted men compared to the Army due to the officer-to-enlisted ratio being something 1 to 8ish in the Marines when compared to the Army being about 1 to 5. Then again, that depends on your unit and your base like what happens at Fort Hood or Fort Bragg shenanigans.

          Marines, unfortunately, run on hopes, dreams, low budgeting, and a big ass advertisement campaign during peacetime. Hence, that haughty attitude/culture the Marine Corps has is, amusingly enough, a "plz don't disband us again" pleading to congress. When wartime comes around, they do not suffer as much from leadership/bureaucratic bloat like the army does and have a more streamlined/direct approach to strategic objectives which is great for the initial assaults until they are eventually curtailed by restrictive ROE's put in place by DoD.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Ok neverserved

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Big Army has more shady, dubious leadership practices

            That's vague and sounds like bullshit. Marines need to compete more for leadership positions, so there is more incentive to frick subordinates over to get a good look from command

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Marines who can't fit in re-enlist in Army after getting out. Or because they want easy mode with better pay.

          The actual gluttons for punishment go join the Coast Guard. And the actually intelligent ones go join the Air Force.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            It just never occurred to me that was an option. I was under the impression you were stuck with a branch for life unless you managed to score a letter from your Congressman.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Nope, you can just go re-enlist. Most people don't since you're back to being the b***h, but you'll promote pretty steadily if you're worth anything at all since you don't need to be taught how not to be a frickup.

              Marine boot is good enough for any of the other branches (except Coast Guard, and maybe Space Force? IDK anything about them), so that's an upside. Some Marines find it hard to adjust to other branches because the culture is different.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Damn, you go straight back to E-1? What if you're an SNCO, or senior Officer?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Damn, you go straight back to E-1? What if you're an SNCO, or senior Officer?

                Don't listen. This guys moronic. You normally keep the same rank, which I'm sure that is what he meant but didn't explain well. Also, if you join a branch that isn't the Marines you normally get some kind of bonus

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The idea of a career revolving around time spent in each branch seems neat.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, there's one guy who served in all of them, and currently in Coast Guard I believe.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I put in my application for coast guard as maritime law enforcement and should be going to meps in a bit. I’m glad to hear that, what makes CG different from the rest in terms of difficulty?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Lack of diversity

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        > tfw shit like this unironically convinced me to waste 4 years of my life in the Corps as a dumbass 17 year old when I could've been in an Airborne unit or something doing way cooler shit the entire time

        Seeing this dumb boot everywhere these days. We get it, your seniors were mean and you got peer’d out of any of the cool schools. Now stfu up, nobody gives a frick that your life is easier in the army, pussy.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >HAHA YOU WANNA GET TREATED WITH RESPECT? WHAT A PUSSY!

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >why does everyone keep leaving and nobody wants to join
            >LOL dunno let's just keep treating people like shit

            https://i.imgur.com/O2BYIE9.png

            >nobody gives a frick that your life is easier in the army

            Holy shit, look who’s seething

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Say silly/dumb thing
              >Get called out
              >Y-YOU'RE JUST SEETHING

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Cry more boot. You should’ve just stayed out of the military, you got bad genes, you just ain’t cut out for it.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not even that anon, moron, I just think you're a miserable moron whose only source of joy in life is being hostile to strangers for no reason in particular. It's just sad.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Bro I'm not even in your shitty ghetto military.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >why does everyone keep leaving and nobody wants to join
          >LOL dunno let's just keep treating people like shit

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >nobody gives a frick that your life is easier in the army

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick kind of underage b& question is this?

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I aint fighting for that star symbol of traitors and losers.

    Shove it up your ass.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The commies chose the five pointed star because it was the symbol of Mars, the Roman god of war.

      This is my flag, as a Patriot. It's not a rainbow flag either, just the old fashioned red white and blue is good enough for me.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It would depend on the training, fitness, and balls of the individual, but Marines are a smaller singular unit that sure does a lot of killin.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      > tfw shit like this unironically convinced me to waste 4 years of my life in the Corps as a dumbass 17 year old when I could've been in an Airborne unit or something doing way cooler shit the entire time

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I do believe that MARSOC conducts operations as a part of SOCOM, and have a presence at Fort Bragg. In Iraq, Marines did a lot of door killing and close range killing, while the Army has many in support roles and a much larger logistics chain.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Marines did a lot of door kicking* and close range killing
          Typo correction.

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Who fricking cares?

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Is a US soldier more fit to fight in trenches than a US marine?
    This is the 21st century, anonymous. The US doesn't have to fight in trenches any more.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >trenches
    No, we don't dig trenches. Why would we?

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >because the culture is different...

    (insert jokes about crayons)

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >The US doesn't have to fight in trenches any more...

    Join Space Farce... the entire future can be deleted with a push of a button ?

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