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Why does the Navy have elite ground forces?

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Lifer
Why aren't they under the Marines?

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The marines ARE the navy. They like to think not but their paycheck (back when they got paper paychecks) say Dept of the Navy.

There's only two secretaries... Army and Navy. Marines and Air Force have a chief of staff but there's really just the Army and Navy.
 
JasonCoder said:
The marines ARE the navy. They like to think not but their paycheck (back when they got paper paychecks) say Dept of the Navy.

There's only two secretaries... Army and Navy. Marines and Air Force have a chief of staff but there's really just the Army and Navy.
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fail thats some ignorant shit you just posted. there has been a Secretary of the air force since 1947 when the AF was formed.

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Well yeah, if you count after 1947 😛

Sorry for posting ignorant shit on the internet. I will now take my paddling.
 
All branches have various special forces for different purposes.

United States special operations forces

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_special_operations_forces


The Force Reconnaissance companies, also known as Force Recon, are one of the United States Marine Corps's special operations capable forces (SOC) that provide essential elements of military intelligence to the command element of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF); supporting their task force commanders, and their subordinate operating units of the Fleet Marine Force (FMF).[2]
Historically, the Force Recon companies, detachments and platoons performed both deep reconnaissance and direct action (DA) operations. Some missions are now shared by the Marine Special Operations Teams (MSOT), due to the establishment of the U.S. Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) in 2006. MARSOC was formed from Force Recon's direct action platoons, and now are capable of performing many of the same mission sets for USSOCOM. This dual existence now allows the FORECON companies to focus on excelling in their primary intelligence-gathering mission, as well as the Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure (VBSS) side of the specialized raid mission.
FORECON is responsible for operating independently behind enemy lines performing unconventional special operations, in support of conventional warfare. The unit's various methods of airborne, heliborne, submarine and waterborne insertions and extractions are similar to those of the Navy SEALs, Army Special Forces, 75th Ranger Regiment, or Air Force Combat Controllers, although Force Recon's missions and tasks do differ slightly with a focus on primarily supporting Marine expeditionary and amphibious operations.[3]

 
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I've seen Navy Seals and SF in action. They're both interchangeable really. Two sides to the same coin. What is some funny shit is Air Force. They all look like melted candles and they suck all around. Like glorified Delta Airlines pilots or something. But they don't all fly.
 
clamum said:
He's right the Marines are under the Navy but yeah the Air Force is completely its own.
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The Department of the Navy has two uniformed services, the Navy and the Marine Corps (and from time to time the Coast Guard). The CMC does not answer to the CNO.

"Why does your Navy's Army have such a strong Air Force?"
 
Elevenpog said:
I've seen Navy Seals and SF in action. They're both interchangeable really. Two sides to the same coin. What is some funny shit is Air Force. They all look like melted candles and they suck all around. Like glorified Delta Airlines pilots or something. But they don't all fly.
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umm what elite af units are you talking about?
 
OutHouse said:
umm what elite af units are you talking about?
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I wasn't talking about an 'elite' group although I guess that would be their PJ's or JTACs.

Funny story. I know the only blind AF guy and I was there when he was blinded. He ain't no hero. He walked across a bridge and got his face blown off. About it. What a douche.
 
Elevenpog said:
I wasn't talking about an 'elite' group although I guess that would be their PJ's or JTACs.

Funny story. I know the only blind AF guy and I was there when he was blinded. He ain't no hero. He walked across a bridge and got his face blown off. About it. What a douche.
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you were a officer wernt you? you sound like a dick. making fun of a fellow service member getting maimed is real fucking classy.
 
OutHouse said:
you were a officer wernt you? you sound like a dick. making fun of a fellow service member getting maimed is real fucking classy.
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Nah....not then. But yeah. Also he banged my dead friends girl. So yeah he's a piece of shit. She is too though.
 
actually its a known proven scientific fact that navy arent allowed to touch land. many wars have been lost because the bad guys just jump off their boat onto the dock and the navy cant do jack shit!
 
Elevenpog said:
I wasn't talking about an 'elite' group although I guess that would be their PJ's or JTACs.
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I'm not even familiar with the Air Force ones myself, but yeah something along those lines. Lots of cross training goes on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Special_Tactics_Officer

Gerle said:
Air Wing for life.
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I was in the Air Wing myself long ago, 1st Marine Brigade.

Even walking from one side of the base to the other you'd get a little attitude going on, the ground pounders didn't care for wingers much 😛

Had a buddy I went to school with after boot and he was assigned to Amtracs on the same base later after school, whenever I went over to hang out with him felt like almost foreign territory.
 
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