"MI does the dying, Fleet just does the flying!"
— Johnny Rico, Mobile Infantry, Starship Troopers
The Soviets are our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy.
— Curtis LeMay, USAF 4 Star General, 1964
Sir — dere iz a time to twit nancy-boy feetsmen und a time to crush bogs.
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines
Ever look on Heaven's scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines
— United States Marine Corps Hymn
"The Obsidian Order represented everything that was cancerous about Cardassia; they were an institutionalized form of decay that preyed on the military and the people even as they pretended to serve the same ends as Central Command."
... It is difficult to get all six Highland Regiments together at one time (there being an official tendency to keep the savages apart in case they start another '45 rebellion, or destroy each other, which is more likely).
"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force, and as long as I am President, that is what it will remain"
— Harry Truman, US President and (perhaps more importantly) former Army officer
"I love the Navy... I do! 'Cept for all the damn sailors."
— SFC James "30K" Ellison, Ghost (US Army), Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Joe: (Rolls up in police car) What's up nerds? You waiting for some guy to fall asleep with a cigarette?! Lazy fire turds!
Fire Captain: Have another donut, pig!
Joe: We got guns! You got hoses! See you on the softball field! (shoots at the tires on a fire truck)
Fire Captain: Have another donut, pig!
Joe: We got guns! You got hoses! See you on the softball field! (shoots at the tires on a fire truck)
—Family Guy, "Ratings Guy"
"The Marines run towards bullets. We actually shoot back."
— US Army saying
When they disbanded S.H.I.E.L.D., the powers that be did something real nasty. They took all of our assets, all our amazing little toys, and they just divided them up.
And my absolute favorite toy...?
This hurt me. I was an Army man, Frank, but as a former Marine, I'm sure you can appreciate the insult...
They gave it to the $%#& Air Force.
And my absolute favorite toy...?
This hurt me. I was an Army man, Frank, but as a former Marine, I'm sure you can appreciate the insult...
They gave it to the $%#& Air Force.
"In most countries the rivalry between the various Intelligence Services is legendary. In Russia the KGB hates the guts of the GRU; in America the FBI will not cooperate with the CIA; the British Security service regards Scotland Yard's Special Branch as a crowd of flat-footed coppers; and there are so many crooks in the French SDECE that experts wonder if the French secret service is part of the government or the underworld."
"But Israel is fortunate. Once a week the chiefs of Israeli Intelligence meet for a friendly chat without interdepartmental friction. It is one of the dividends of being a nation surrounded by enemies."
"But Israel is fortunate. Once a week the chiefs of Israeli Intelligence meet for a friendly chat without interdepartmental friction. It is one of the dividends of being a nation surrounded by enemies."
Ask any infantryman what they think about pilots and they will likely launch into a rant about the cushy life of the flyboy: the good food, the regular entertainment, the air conditioning, and perhaps most of all the warm dry beds. To the infantryman who is used to doing without any of these creature comforts, living in such relative luxury is at best suspect, at worst degenerate. Ask them about Vindicator pilots, however, and the tone will change to one of respect. Most Allied soldiers have a story about a Vindicator helping them out of a tight spot, and not a few owe their lives to these deadly ground attack aircraft.
[...] (In fact, Vindicator crews spend the vast majority of their time forward deployed, and few enjoy the amenities so often attributed to them by the infantry.) In addition, the tempo of the ground war dictates that crews fly missions almost non-stop, pausing only when days of continuous operations finally force the crews to take a brief rest lest they collapse from sheer exhaustion.
[...] (In fact, Vindicator crews spend the vast majority of their time forward deployed, and few enjoy the amenities so often attributed to them by the infantry.) In addition, the tempo of the ground war dictates that crews fly missions almost non-stop, pausing only when days of continuous operations finally force the crews to take a brief rest lest they collapse from sheer exhaustion.
—Red Alert 3 on the Vindicator bomber
Harbinger gunship crews are hand-picked by Future Tech from its private flight schools, as men demonstrating the coolness under fire and whichever other rare personality traits and skills that Future Tech strictly demands of its teams. Initially, Allied officials were publicly miffed at the idea that their ace airmen might not be qualified to get behind the yoke of a Harbinger, though Pres. Thornley himself quickly smoothed the issue over, yielding to Future Tech on that particular requirement. Both the Allies and Future Tech Corporation have since denied or dismissed rumors of ongoing tensions between Harbinger crews and the Allies' own fighter jocks, even though the latter see the former as "a pack of vultures circling the skies sniffing for blood," according to one Allied pilot who wished to remain anonymous.
—Red Alert 3 on the Harbinger gunship
Note: DCI engineers and technicians insist that inertiics (In-ur-shiks) is an applied science. Those interested in "pure" research, elitist jerks that they are, demean inertiics, insisting that it's "only" an art. It has been described as the art of bribing Einstein to steal the shirt from Newton's back, and to then sell it back to him after emptying the pockets.
A good DCI technician will, over the course of his or her career, save thousands of lives by preventing DCI failures in the ships upon which he or she works, and will be rewarded with a comfortable salary, stock options, and free travel vouchers on participating starlines.
A good pure researcher will, over the course of his/her/its career, get published a few times, see his/her/its work plagiarized, stolen, or otherwise borrowed by the commercial sector, and will be rewarded with an increasing sense of bitterness as he/she/it watches the Universe continue to spin down entropically in several senses of the word. We should not, therefore, blame the pure researcher for being an elitist jerk. It's some of the only pleasure he/she/it will derive from the quest for discoveries untainted by practical application.
A good DCI technician will, over the course of his or her career, save thousands of lives by preventing DCI failures in the ships upon which he or she works, and will be rewarded with a comfortable salary, stock options, and free travel vouchers on participating starlines.
A good pure researcher will, over the course of his/her/its career, get published a few times, see his/her/its work plagiarized, stolen, or otherwise borrowed by the commercial sector, and will be rewarded with an increasing sense of bitterness as he/she/it watches the Universe continue to spin down entropically in several senses of the word. We should not, therefore, blame the pure researcher for being an elitist jerk. It's some of the only pleasure he/she/it will derive from the quest for discoveries untainted by practical application.
