It is sometimes fun to tease Marines about their paychecks being signed by the Secretary of the Navy, though! The Navy and the Corps are like the fists of a boxer, the right fist and the left fist. Often the big right fist is the Corps, often it is the Navy. If it comes to battle at Taiwan, the Navy will pay a big price. This can happen any time.
An old Battle of Okinawa marine, who was always square with me, and was a friend (since deceased - rest in peace, Deano) told me he would not tolerate disrespect for the US Army. (I had been out of line.) The Army and the Corps worked as one on Okinawa.
(Old Deano would sometimes talk bad about the swabbies, as was his right, and I always came back that a lot more swabs than Marines were killed at Okinawa, which is the case. Old Deano would come back that that was because there are so many Navy guys you just can't help but find them an easy target! Not saying old Deano wouldn't have called anyone out who talked bad about the Fighting Navy.)
A man as good as I ever saw, Air Force pilot, flew MISTY FAC missions in Viet Nam, an amazingly difficult and dangerous job. The Air Force PJs, pararescuemen, have never recieved the honor due them. Only recently did Pitsenbarger, "Pits", get the Medal of Honor he deserved. The Freeper Foxhole recently did a good job telling Pits' story, I suggest visiting the thread to all.
So old military men tease each other some, but if someone who hasn't earned the right tries putting his oar in, and playing the fool, I do not tolerate it.
Well given the source of my screen name
VFA-14 "Top Hatters" on the USS Nimitz