See the thing is in the marines "we're better than you and we know it" kinda mentality ruins a lot of it.

I trained with a lot of foreign militaries during my first enlistment and I have got to say that like if it wasn't for the technology difference, the Columbian and Peruvian armies could probably beat the marine corps infantrywise

So marine corps infantry doctrine essentially boils down to "there is a brick wall ahead of us, we are going to keep bashing our heads against the wall until it breaks or falls down, when it eventually does we'll claim that we were successful"

that stubbornness is good in some scenarios but it's what got a hell of a lot of them killed in Iraq

Marines are basically the Slavs of america atm

yeah brute forcing shit doesn't work out so well irl

The army isn't all amazing either but we have our shit together relatively speaking

Honestly if the corps would get it's shit squared away, it wouldn't be so bad.

Their biggest issue is lack of focus branchwise

But with things going the way they are, I doubt they will

I think the Navy is doing the best atm

They don't know what they want to be as a force

Idk man I have friends in the 7th fleet

And they paint a different picture about the navy

I.e undermanned, overworked, shits falling apart, Chiefs are half shitty etc

Turning into the brits

I mean that same complaint can be extended mil wide but you squids got it rough sometimes

Ya we are under manned but it depends on command really

Military in general is in some bad times

Honestly joining in peacetime is kinda stupid unless you do a very technical role

And at that point just go air force and have it easy

Or coast guard and go do something useful

My step brother is a coastie

It's underrated

Doesn’t do shit but fish all day

Everyone shits on it but they're a cool branch

I have only had interactions with him and honestly those are pretty few and far between. But they do some cool drug interdiction stuff.

Lol yeah that's more than you can say for the rest of us

That whole not getting paid during government shutdown is pretty fucked though.

I did some fun stuff in the army but like damn most of it was just waiting around

Saaaaaaame

Yeah that part was shitty

Back in 2014 we had something similar with the shutdown then

When DoD wasn't funded

2011 it happened too

Everything around base was closed for 2 weeks

Nothing happened

I was in Germany and they were like hey no ones getting paid

Yep it's pretty dumb

We were in Graf so it didn’t really make a difference to us at the time

But yeah the constant doing nothing especially once the wars mostly ended is the worst part