Which military branch?

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[QUOTE=BanginJimmy]I am going to say Marine Corps for several reasons, all of which are from personal experience.

2. The Corps takes better care of the troops by foregoing on creature comforts in garrison and instead spending budget money on better equipment. Some things you may have heard about:
Marines were the first to have Digi camo. Corps went to the Army when research started looking to collaborate. Army turned them down and said that the current uniforms were fine. We see where that ended up.
Marines developed an uparmor program for unarmored vehicles. Asked the Army to go in on the project. Army declined saying that the armor wouldnt be needed.

4. Esprit de Corps. I spent 9 years in the corps and now I am in the NG. The Corps was so much tighter than the guard is that you cant even begin to compare it.

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2) This may have changed by now but when I was in Fallujah Iraq and the Marines replaced us there their equpment was not nearly as good as ours. I say this because not every soldier had Night Vision or IR lasers on their weaposn for nightfires. Plus their rules of engagement really placed thim in a lot of unnecessary danger even though we had told them everything that had worked well for us in our 8.5 months there.
4) I would definitely agree on this point but you really have to think, you are comparing apples to oranges. The Active duty Marines will always be more disciplined and a closer bunch than a unit from the NG that only works together one weekend a month and possibly if they are deployed.

On a side note, we lost one man in Iraq. Within 3 days of my battalion leaving Fallujah they lost 7 guys and were completely booted from the city within a month, until the fall of 2004 when they finally retook the city.
I was with 1-505 PIR 82d ABN DIV.

All the branches are good at what they do though if used effectively.

[BanginJimmy]

[QUOTE=jumpin800agl2) This may have changed by now but when I was in Fallujah Iraq and the Marines replaced us there their equpment was not nearly as good as ours. I say this because not every soldier had Night Vision or IR lasers on their weaposn for nightfires. Plus their rules of engagement really placed thim in a lot of unnecessary danger even though we had told them everything that had worked well for us in our 8.5 months there.
4) I would definitely agree on this point but you really have to think, you are comparing apples to oranges. The Active duty Marines will always be more disciplined and a closer bunch than a unit from the NG that only works together one weekend a month and possibly if they are deployed.

On a side note, we lost one man in Iraq. Within 3 days of my battalion leaving Fallujah they lost 7 guys and were completely booted from the city within a month, until the fall of 2004 when they finally retook the city.
I was with 1-505 PIR 82d ABN DIV.

All the branches are good at what they do though if used effectively.[/QUOTE]

In early 04 the uparmor program was just starting to get online. Very few units had them and those that did get them got them in about mid 04 and were deployed with them in late 04. Before that it was sparse in country with only VIPs getting them.

Also my experience is with Afghanistan. I dont know much about what individual units had in Iraq.