Should I join the army?

[Panag]

Originally posted by Lancer
Join the army, be a grunt. You get to play with all the fun things that go bang, and if you go lifer you'll never have to worry about those nasty debt collectors wanting their money back! Instead of studying lame crap like math and technical charts as you would with any other service, you can spend your off time as any REAL MAN should, chasing girls and drinking beer! Also, you can still safely bend over to pick up the soap in the army, DON'T try this in the AF or definately not in the navy... Anyway, ask for 3rd infantry, these days it's like a video game all damn day. You can prepare yourself with a few thousand hours of DOOM if you like... In 20 or thirty years, if some head full of mush ******* doesn't blow you away, you're out with a fat pension and alot of stories, some of which you might be able to tell.

Girls and beer! Let your free time be free in the US army!

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[Cruddy]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
It's to standardize it across the services.

The Navy invents all sorts of cute names for their ranks, so God can't even figure out what they all mean. The air force - who knows, except for a few units (air commandos, pararescue and combat pilots), they're not really in the military anyway.)

For Army and Marines, the names are different - in the Army, a PFC (Private First Class) is an E3, and in the Marines, a PFC is an E2, with a Lance Corporal being an E3. Corporals are the same in both (although the Army also has Specialist-4, the last holdout from a dual rank system that at one time had Specialist-4 through Specialist-9), Sergeants (E5) and Staff Sergeants (E6) are the same in both Army and Marines, but then at E7 (navy Chief Petty Officer, but they do the cutesie thing and call them stuff like Chief Machinist's Mate or some such for each different job), the Army has Sergeants First Class, while the Marines have Gunnery Sergeants (Gunnies)

O1's are the bottom officer grades, but it's a lot simpler and shorter than 2nd Lieutenant (everyone but navy) or Ensign (Navy)

What a brilliant idea... compared to the incredible amount of culture or "mould" as some of us like to call some of the traditions of the UK Armed Forces.

For one thing, all regiments are part of the Army - except the RAF Defence Regiment (which isn't).

Artillery have their own names for sergeants and corporals. So do Cavalry (some of whom are still on horseback for ceremonial duties) and Engineers, although don't get the Pioneers mixed up with the REME. (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers).

Guards officesr have 2 RANKS! One their Guards rank and the other their nomal Army rank. Don't know if this has been scrapped..

Navy - don't even ask.

The Marines are technically part of the navy, so it's even more confused.

In short - you can join ANY of the services and stand a chance of ending up holding a live weapon waiting to be shot at. "Stag" (or guard duty).

[Panag]

hi ,

you can find all the ranks and patches and badges with great pics here > https://www.perscom.army.mil/

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