I don't understand the difference in OPERATIONS between: Delta Force, Army Rangers, Marine Recon, Navy Seals, Air Force Special OPS. Of course I know they are various branches. But Why them all??? Who goes first in wars???
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Depends on the missions and what kind of war it is.  First of all Special "delta" forces are designed to infiltrate deep into enemy territory with one specific goal, and to go to friendlies in enemy territory and train them how to resist and fight our common enemy.\n\nArmy Rangers are more of an acctual wartime advanced assault team.  Highly trained infantry that can sustain themselves without backup for an extend amount of time\n\nMarine Recon are just that.  A small unit that recons forward enemy positions to relay information back to headquarters. \n\nNavy Seals are like Special forces to some degree. They have to train for water incursions more. Swimming, diving, underwater explosives.\n\nAir Force Special OPS usually retrieve downed crew in enemy territory.\n\nAll of these descriptions can be interchanged pretty much.  Just depends on which teams are available, and what the actual missions are.
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Our armed forces are much better suited to fighting conventional forces than insurgencies. This is true of most armies.
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The UFC guy. Why? Because the Navy SEALs actually spend very little time on hand to hand. Remember, the military assumes people have guns and knives. Even according to a marine combat instructor I know, the combatives program is actually meant until your buddy can show up to shoot them. Besides, knife fighting is still more emphasized than empty armed combat. That is not to say that a SEAL isn't a very good fighter, it just means the SEAL combatives program isn't very in-depth and detailed.
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Initial training consists of Marine Recruit Training, & the School of Infantry, training as a rifleman. Students are then assigned to the Basic Recon Course. Upon successful completion of the BRC, Marines report to their assigned recon unit &  receive various professional, technical and tactical training. Among these are:   Airborne (basic and Military Freefall) Jumpmaster, Pathfinder, Ranger, Scout-Sniper, Combat Diver (SCUBA) Diving Supervisor, Mountain warfare & assault climber, Jungle operations, specialized training in urban tactics, Close Quarters Battle & shooting skills, demolitions, communications, photography, controlling aircraft landing operations and directing Airstrikes, Naval Gunfire and Artillery\n\nYES IT CAN BE EXPLAINED!!!!\nhttp://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Smith_112003,00.html
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The Army doesn't have branches.  The US government has branches (executive, legislative and judicial).  The military has branches, I guess - Army, Navy (Marines are part of the Navy) and Air Force.  Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security, not the Defense Department, so they aren't considered military.
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Yes:\n\nThe United States Army Special Forces —also known by the nickname Green Berets or simply Special Forces (capitalized)— is a Special Operations Force of the U.S. Army trained for unconventional warfare and special operations. The force was founded by Aaron Bank and their official headgear is the green beret, thanks to the efforts of an early officer, Edson Raff.\n\nTheir official motto is De oppresso liber ("To liberate the oppressed"). Unofficially: Sign on the wall of the American Army Green Beret headquarters:\n\n"If you kill for joy, you are a sadist. If you kill for money, you are a mercenary. If you kill for both of the above, you are a Green Beret"
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You can't really compare Marine Recon and Army SF to Navy SEALs.  First off, they do completely different things.  Second, anyone who's actually  seen some of the things the SEALs do know that they're crap.  All I'll say is that there are quite often some major problems with target acquisition...\n\nI have no envy issues, actually.  I've just seen the way that SEALs handle things and I wasn't impressed.  Maybe, I'm just looking at things from isolated incidents but I was only voicing my opinion.  I deffinetly hold the utmost respect for Long-tabbers, I've spent a good deal of my career working with them.  My personal preference will be Rangers over any of them, though.
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As best as I can remember, the Joint Chiefs of Staff outranks all others by position.  As far as the brnaches, the Army, Navy, and Air Force are all their own department and hence the same, some people go by when the branch was established which would be Army Navy Air Force (sorry Marines fall under the Dept of Navy).  The Marines actually fall under the Department of the Navy.  The Coast Guard is not part of Dept of Defense and upon act of Congress can be placed under the direction of the Navy, but like the Marines is it's own branch of the military.
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British Special Air Service. A special forces unit formed in the Libyan desert during world war two, made up of highly trained four man squads who worked behing enemy lines blowing up airfields, troop convoys, etc etc.\n\nCalled the Special Air Service Brigade to fool the germans into thinking it was a much larger force.\n\nFought in the Malayan and  Borneo campaigns in the 50's and 60's and became expert at Jungle fighting and defeated both the communist guerrilas and Indonesian insurgents.\n\nFought in the desert campaigns in Oman in the 70's with distinction, and also developed a counter terrorist role in Northern Ireland.\n\nFamously stormed the Iranian Embassy in London live on T.V after terrorists occupied the building and held the Iranaian diplomats hostage. All the terrorists were killed except one.\n\nWas the model for the U.S Delta force after a U.S Green Beret officer was seconded. Delta and SAS still swap officers on secondment.\n\nSaw distinguished service in action in the Falklands, Sierra Leone, both gulf wars, South America (anti drugs ops) and has trained special forces units around the world.\n\nMade up of four "squadrons" A, B, D, and G and recruits across the British and commonwealth armies, mainly from the parachute regiment except G squadron which recruits exclsively from the Guards.\n\nThe Royal Marine equivalent is the SBS Special Boat Squadron and is similar to the SEALS.\n \nIs now the most highly specialised special forces unit in the world.
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I'd say Marine Special Forces would be harder.  I was an active duty Marine and trained with Army Rangers.  Rangers and your average infantry Marine seemed to be about equal.  The rest of the Army were no more than glorified boy scouts with guns...all equally lost.  I'm not trying to be all "Marines are better" but I had an Army SSgt who'd been in for 12 years ask me (I was a Corporal in charge of a squad of Marines) how to set up basic maneuvers.  \n\nNow...more on the point of Marine Special Forces.  I had a 1st Sgt who was Force Recon for 16 years and he was the baddest of the bad.  He was a great guy, but his abilities were scary.  He was an expert shot, knew all kinds of martial arts, and could PT all day.  I'd seen endocs (tests to get into snipers or special forces) for Marines...they ran those guys in the rain all night long.  They ran and did exercises for about 16 hours straight.  I'll shut up, but email me if you want more stories.
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it's nice to hear the air force is treating you well ... I was a army wife and it was not" 90210 "like you explained ...{thanks for the dumpy comment }, My husband was a GRUNT in Bosnia and in Afghanistan ... It was sheer hell for me and our 2 boys .. Im thankful for Ft. knox they did all they could do to make it as easy as they could for us during my husbands deployment... No matter what branch all these men and women are HEROS ! I was not aware that there were people who did'nt support our troops ... I just thought it was Bush they did'nt support ! being a "army" wife is very hard!!{ there is no fun and games at war} maybe I should have had my husband Join the airforce so we could not appear to be so dumpy!!! My husband is a hell of a man and Im very proud of what he has done for our country.. HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Elite? Consider every branch except the Marine Corp has units in SOCOM (Special Operations COMmand). (It appears this has recently changed as of 02/24/2006)\n\nWhile Jarheads get my respect as kick A** Warfighters they are trained to React not Act, Spec. Op's soldiers need the ability to think and act independently an indoctrination strictly averred in the Corp.\n\nThis is ashamed because I would have much more respect for the SEAL's if they were selected from the Corp instead of the Navy....What dipstick came up with that idea???
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There are several branches of the military with several different ranks (like army/navy/marine corps/air force/etc.)\n\nFirst resource states:\nArmy Ranks are broken down by enlisted and officer.\n\nEnlisted Ranks\n  E-1 Private\n  E-2 Private\n  E-3 Private First Class\n  E-4 Specialist\n  E-5 Sergeant\n  E-6 Staff Sergeant\n  E-7 Sergeant First Class\n  E-8 Master Sergeant\n  E-8 First Sergeant\n  E-9 Sergeant Major\n  E-9 Command Sergeant Major\n  E-10 Sergeant Major of the Army\n\nWarrant Officer Ranks\n  W-1 Warrant Officer 1\n  W-2 Chief Warrant Officer 2\n  W-3 Chief Warrant Officer 3\n  W-4 Chief Warrant Officer 4\n  W-5 Master Warrant Officer 5\n\nOfficer Ranks\n  O-1 Second Lieutenant\n  O-2 First Lieutenant\n  O-3 Captain\n  O-4 Major\n  O-5 Lieutenant Colonel\n  O-6 Colonel\n  O-7 Brigadier General\n  O-8 Major General\n  O-9 Lieutenant General\n  O-10 General\n  O-10 General of the Army (wartime rank)\n\nI could paste the rest in this answer, but what I will do is give you some website resources to read up on the other forces of the military.  See below resources.
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Scout Sniper is the official title for U.S. Marine Snipers. It refers to the fact it's a two part job.  In addition to shooting, the job of the team is Intel collection. They operate behind the lines. They work in 2 man teams. They carry radios to call in arty. or air strikes on targets. They sketch digrams of postions. They spend hours hidden watching with binoculars at the enemy. This is the kind of first hand battle feild intel you can't get from a drone or Satellite.\nAs for what types are there? Basically 2. Law enforcement ( swat, secret service, FBI, state police) & Military. While both are snipers, the jobs and methods are different. A police sniper is generally defensive & short ranged ( on a roof top watching a hostage rescue or doing counter sniper work).  For very detailed look on sniping visit my friends at http://www.snipercountry.com
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I agree, he is definitely no soldier. As a soldier myself, I've never heard of the unit "2nd Bn, Ranger" either. There are A LOT of 2nd BNs out there.\n\nHis unit should look something like mine does here;\n81st RSC (Higher command), 640th TC Det (My individual unit), we’re out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa Florida.\n\nAlso, no real Republican wants to pull out of Iraq (much like Libs, difference is we don't lie bout it)\n\nAnd, if what Rebecca says is true I guess I'm no soldier either, I serve in the Army Reserve, which is almost the same as the National Guard.\n\nOh, and in case she hasn't noticed, just as many Reserve and Guard soldiers have been fighting this war as Active Duty soldiers. Same can be said for a lot of other wars/conflicts.
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Black ops is a division of the CIA and they recruit from many different specialties. Quite often though, they look for men who have special forces background with the Delta Force being the peak of that career. Delta force men have to complete a forty mile hike while navigating through and over rugged mountains with a very heavy backpack, they have to learn CIA "tradecraft" (lockpicking, shadowing people, making dead drops, losing someone who is tailing them) and for a final exam, have to be dropped off in a city with no money or valuables and are given three days to get to another city 2000 miles away.
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Have worked with a few differnt countries spec ops groups over the years. Would have to say that the Thai Spec Ops (these happen to be Thai marines) were tops on my list. The Malay were a close second. For anywhere in the world (desert, jungle, sea, mountain..) I would still have to go with the SEALS.