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. My buddy did say that this private was a pretty dim bulb. :)

Hey OK! Here we go! Now, I can relate to that. No shortage of dim bulbs to go around in the Army or the Marines. Maybe the Marine dim bulbs are more disciplined ;-) But I feel like I'm taking on the entire Marine Corps here. Do I love the Army- You betcher! Do I think the Army is better than the Marines? Yessir! And just like you Marine fellas will sit around and Semper Fi each other to death (or maybe it's only the rest of us that you Semper Fi to death) I will defend the Army. It's the nation's oldest and proudest institution. We've been there for America whenever she needed us and we always will be! The Army rules! I won't take anything away from you guys, but yall don't need to be dissing the Army.

I won't take anything away from you guys, but yall don't need to be dissing the Army.

And yet you show disrespect to the Marine Corps.

You even said that the Army song is better than the Marine song. We don't have a song, by the way, (in a sense), we have a hymn, the Marine's Hymn.

There's a difference right there.

I think there is not much controversy in saying that unit for unit, Marine infantry is better than Army infantry. Even George Patton is on record as saying, "bad infantry needs good artillery and our infantry needs all the artillery it can get."

It was true in Viet Nam that the Marines were more willing to use fire and maneuver on the NVA/VC when the Army would employ massive supporting arms and then mop up what was left.

I think, and I am glad to say that I am prejudiced, that Marine infantry is generally better than Army infantry. What is the mission of an Army infantry squad? The mission of the Marine rifle squad is "to locate, close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver and to repel his assaults by fire and close combat."

Most of the guys I served with, even the dimmest bulbs could give you that answer, because it was -stressed-.

I don't think it is stressed so much in the regular Army units. That is my impression.

But I will always take issue with the statement that the Army and the Marine Corps are the same. Yuck.

Walt

It's the nation's oldest and proudest institution.

Continental Army established June 14, 1775
Marine Corps establisted November 10, 1775
Declaration of Independence signed July 4, 1776
Continental Army disbanded November 2, 1783
United States Army established September 29, 1789