Sunday, February 7, 2010

True or false. Do Marines hate aviation maintance Marines more than sailors?

Naval aviation maintance here, just some things I've notice on the flight deck. Aviation jarheads still have that Marine attitude, but seem to get scoffed by other jarheads.True or false. Do Marines hate aviation maintance Marines more than sailors?
Tough call..





I was stationed on MCB HAWAII and one half of the base is air wing while the other half is grunts..During PT we would run on purpose all the way to their side just to mess with them early in the morning..





I remember humping around base from about 0300 to 1000 and the air wing would wake up later than the grunts and then they would get caught behind our road guards..Our columns were long and they would have to wait..They would get pissed off..It was as if they were waiting at train tracks.





By the time the air wing would wake up we would already have 5 or so hours of good training under our day.





They also had their own chow hall and god forbid we went to eat in it..They would look at us as if we were from another planet because of how dirty we were or because of how much shorter our hair was..





Its a well known fact in the Marines that there is an air wing side of the Corps and then there is the Marine Corps infantry.True or false. Do Marines hate aviation maintance Marines more than sailors?
We hate them both equally.Only because where jelous
In the Hierarchy of inter and intra service rivalry's


it goes like this...





US Marine Grunts


US Marine Airdales


US Navy...squids are for kids and tricky wabbits
They might...until that Whiskey model Cobra (you guys still fly 'em, right?) comes and saves their asses.
It's all in fun because when it comes down to it we are all Marines!!! Reguardless of the job you do...... So don't worry Sailors are worse......LOL........
';With the old breed'; a autobiography of a marine mortar man during WW II. Sledge felted grudge toward others that stay behind the line. It was because he feel that they shouldn't be there. That he have fought hard for the ground he was standing on and ';behind the line'; Marine just step on it without his permission. They say a true Marine are the Marine Infantry and that is very much true. When you hear of the word MARINE you think of Infantry charging toward the enemy in dirt and blood not some guy fixing a helicopter. I believe the grunts just feel a little cheated that he is label as Marine alongside someone that never felt death.
I work with 8 other sailors (most of us nukes), three Marine airdales, and one real Marine (his words, not mine). If a subject of anything military comes up the 'real' Marine openly shows actual disdain for two of the airdales while a level of respect for we squids and the one airdale who was retired as a Gunny.
Id guess its do to the fact they stay behind the line while you are on the line of war
Airwing...HA! They get really nervous when some real trigger pullers walk in the room.





Dillion
very false. I was former aviation ordinance.

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