Does every military unit think it's the best....

[BeBMan]

...or do they use that "Ok, we're the best!" motivation crap only in the movies?

I mean, they can't all be the best, hm?

[DinoDoc]

Does any unit think of themselves as the worst?

[BeBMan]

But there's lots of room between "best" and "worst".

Maybe some just think that they're as good as others.

[Lancer]

There are different specialties and military units who train constantly in their specialty until they can do the job in their sleep often think they are the best because the job just couldn't be done better. Alot depends on your fellow soldiers though. The unit I was in back in '77 had racial problems. Some of the soldiers freely stated that they weren't going to fight for the white man and would go to Switzerland if war broke out. So, I always knew that the Germans were better.

[Patroklos]

We always thought we were the best, but we were also recognized as such. Though in the months since I transfered my contacts back there say they have slipped. We were a feast or famine ship, so all our experianced guys left at about the same time.

The Leyte Gulf, on the other hand, knew they were the worst, and would tell you so.

[Sirotnikov]

Yes they do.

But ultimately, the smarter ones always recognize the unit for its crappy habbits or rules, and always claim that it is utilizing only 50% of what it could be.

I think the same of my own unit.

[Blaupanzer]

Sort of like all American drivers rating themselves as "better than average," even tho that's impossible. What's the motivation in saying "well, we are not the best, but we are pretty good?" That only works for rental car companies.

[Zkribbler]

I've heard that when Turkish soldiers arise in the morning, they shout out at the top of their lungs:

"One Turk is worth the entire world!!"

[Chemical Ollie]

"No matter how hard you train and how good you get, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you're just gonna get it". From the movie "The thin Red Line"

We had a saying when I made my service: "Even a Spetznaz dies from a bullet in the forehead". And those guys were the enemy my unit prepared to meet, protecting a vital air force installation. We had agressive dogs to hunt them down. But luckily enough, they never came.

[LordShiva]

WTF is a Spetznaz?

[Chemical Ollie]

Russian 1337 troops, supposedly as mean as SAS or SEAL

[kittenOFchaos]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I've heard that when Turkish soldiers arise in the morning, they shout out at the top of their lungs:

"One Turk is worth the entire world!!"

I've got a Turk for sale

[Elok]

Re: Does every military unit think it's the best....

Originally posted by BeBro
...or do they use that "Ok, we're the best!" motivation crap only in the movies?

I mean, they can't all be the best, hm?

I always assumed that the movies just didn't show any non-elite units long enough for us to hear their slogans. The troops who aren't Mobile Infantry/Navy SEALS/Colonial Marines are red-shirts, they're the ones who get killed in a gruesome fashion to show you how awesome the hero units are.

The exceptions to this rule are the Stormtroopers from Star Wars; they're apparently supposed to be an elite unit but they still have a terrible record.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
We had a saying when I made my service: "Even a Spetznaz dies from a bullet in the forehead". And those guys were the enemy my unit prepared to meet, protecting a vital air force installation. We had agressive dogs to hunt them down. But luckily enough, they never came.

Or most probably, they've secretly infiltrated your installation at least a dozen times, just for practice, without ever being discovered or touching anything.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov


Or most probably, they've secretly infiltrated your installation at least a dozen times, just for practice, without ever being discovered or touching anything.

Yeah, in the 80's, they did that just for sports. Swam ashore from a submarine, walked 70 km across dry land in a quite densely populated area, patted our evil dogs on the head and scratched them behind the ear, then climbed the radar mast and spray painted "Igor was here" on the antenna.

NOT!

Actually, I think they were too busy hunting Mujahedin in Afghanistan to worry about me and my dog in Sweden. Better "training grounds" there.