In the Army,Which do you think is the best AIRBORNE unit of all time?
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Now if we are talking Division and up it has to be the "All-American" Airborne Dvision The 8 deuce or 82nd Airborne division at Ft. Bragg, NC. Granted the screaming eagles or 101st outta Ft Campbell, KY are just as trained. But they do not have the prestige that the 82nd has. Plus Ft. Bragg is a much better post.\n\nIf we are talking smaller units I would said the 1st of the 506th. Part of 2nd ID. They were the band of brothers, and have an elite background.\n\nNow all the SF teams are much more trained and more elite than any of the previous, but those guys do much specialized missions.
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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 am active duty, I am an A1C (E-3) with the 96th ABW and I am a Vehicle and vehicular equipment maintenance guy for the Air Force.  If you doubt that there is a job with that discription the AFSC is  2T351 and the job used to be called General Vehicle Maintenance.  Look it up if you want. \n\nBTW, you are lying your A$$ off.  There is no 104th Airborne.\n\nSo sorry, no cookie for you.  POSER\n\nBy posting this question you have become what you hate on here.  If you were a service member you would understand that you don't need to stoop to such a level to find the real people.  You don't even need to ask what units they are attached to.
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the air force is the best trained.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhahahaha just kidding
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Oshkosh Wisconsin  has a Great Show Military and Civilan \nAnd Hill AFB in Utah puts on a Great Show. Hill is the Base That rebuilds all the F-16s and C 130's The Thunderbirds fly the show at Hill (their planes are rebuilt and painted there but they are based in Nevada. Also Hill's AF Museam is one of the best the have some planes that are shown no where else. Check out their Home page and Museam page. I think Wright _Patterson also has Air show.
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San Diego... The best..\n;o)\n\nCPL. Howitzer
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There are no better or best. There is bragging among the membres of the various groups, but only in a joking way the way you would brag about your high school being better than another high schoool.\n\nThe two groups are both elite in their service, Special Forces in the Army of which I was once a member and the Navy Seals. \n\nThey are trained for two different missions, but both are highly trained units with lots of the latest weapons, escape and evasion techniques as well as languages of various regions.\n\nSpecial Forces are taught to jump from airplanes as well as helicopters to secure an objective,like airports, ammo dumps, political buildings, recapture prisioners. They also gather intelligence of ground troup strenght or an area. They might also be sent in to train the people from a certain country and set up groups to fight.\n\nSeals do the same but mostly in and around the sea or other water areas, though they might also find themselves on the ground doing a job also.\n\nSo to say that one is better than the other is not something that you can compare,since each are given different missions and goals to accomplich.\n\nA person should be proud if they are selected to become a member of either of these highly trained units. They are also opened up to women now. You must join the Army to become a memeber of Special Forces and the Navy to be selected to be a Navy Seal\n\nI hope this has been of some use to you, good luck
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I went through Ranger training 39 years ago after I graduated from Airborne training. It was indeed rough and yes, I made it through the first time. I remember that I would always hold sleep very precious after that! You are taught map reading, land navigation (both day and night), combative techniques like pugil stick training, hand-to-hand combat and bayonet training, airborne and airmobile techniques of operation, small unit patrolling techniques, rope and knot tying, rock climbing (big damn rocks on Mt Yonah!), rappelling, ambush techniques and more patrolling techniques, then we boarded a UH-1 Bus and went to Flordia for more patrolling techniques,small boat ops, stream and swamp navigation, etc. All of this training took place beginning at Ft. Benning, GA, at Camp Rogers and Camp Darby, to Camp Merrill, near Dahlonega, GA, to Camp Rudder, Auxillery Field #7, and then back to Darby. To me it was the most intensive 9 weeks I ever spent in the Army. I don't know if it is all still the same or not. Camp Rudder was referred to as Camp Mother-Rudder and Hurley Hill as Hurl(i.e. throw-up)Hill. You do one hell of a lot of P.T., running and lots of road marches. There is lack of sleep, hunger, exhaustion, stress, and any misery that the Ranger staff and Mother Nature can throw at you. But it's all worth it when you get that Black and Gold Tab (i.e. we called it the "Bumble-Bee") that says "Ranger". To the rest of the military that little arched tab says it all. Be proud of your son for making it through the TOUGHEST course that the Army has to offer and tell him that I said, "Sua Sponte".
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well the army just isnt the best. i mean their physical training and mental training isnt as hard as most other branches. however they have a MUCH easier boot camp now. but if i were you, being from iraq, ild show your families and americans that you have the power to be the best, join marines or something like that. and if you have to join the army go into airborne.\np.s. please dont turn out to be a terrorist, my mom would kill me.
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ME!!!    British army is THE BEST!!!!  \n\nMy dad served in WWII and 5 of my great uncles served in WWI.\n\n(I'm 34 btw - dad was 52 when I was born!)\n\nMy dad couldn't stand the American army.  He served alongside them and found them sloppy, indisciplined, arrogant and more interested in chasing skirt than anything else.\n\nPlus they had a nasty habit of shooting at and bombing him and his comrades in so called "friendly fire" (which they still do today).  They couldn't hit the enemy if he was standing next to them.\n\nDuring his time in Monte Casino (Italy) during WWII my dad and his comrades spent a "pleasant" week picking corpses out of the trees after the Americans in their "wisdom" decided to bomb a monstery hospital and graveyard. \n\nAs for "they saved our arses in WWII" did they hell.  Excuse me but where were the Yanks when the Battle of Britain was being fought?  They didn't give a damn until Pearl Harbour was attacked.  They made their contribution the same as the Aussies, the Canadians, The Commonwealth troops (Indians etc) and the rest of the Allied troops did, and now they want to take all the credit for it.  \n\nAnd for any Amercian who disagrees that the British army is the best - who had to hold Bush's hand when he went into Afghanistan and Iraq?  Oh thats right, the British army.  Who do the Americans call when they are in shite street and need a fast evacuation?  The SAS.   \n\nThey are good at starting wars they can't finish too (see Vietnam where they got their arses handed to them by a bunch of farmers with pitchforks).
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Marines still have some pride and they have an airwing. \nThey are tough but its worth it.\nGo Marines!
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Militarily, it is, without a doubt, the USA. Capability, force projection, unparallelled. Intelligent, motivated, skilled and well-trained volunteer servicemembers. Top notch weapons technology.\n\nAnd yes, I'm from USA. But that doesn't change the answer.
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I think that every service has a specific purpose.  The Marines are definitely better than any other service when it comes to their role in the DOD.  Marines are a modular forces, they can secure coastlines and a few miles inland, however they are limited when it comes to a long stay.  The Army is huge and has a large logistical tail, the Army can sustain itself for long periods of time. \n\nNavy and Air Force are movers and lifeline support.  Without them the Marines and Army cannot function.
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I was there for 9 months in Electronic Principals, a tech school, that base was so much fun! The river walk is the heat, and there are always those little basic trainees running around that you can laugh at. I think it is one of the best bases in the Air Force.
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My favorite animal is the falcon. It can fly and is free. It is also really fast. And it is strong too. IT's also the official animal of the Us Air Force, which I am going to join.
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11th Marine Expeditionary Unit\n\ncheck out thier website, its pretty cool
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Israel. I think they are their soldiers fully prepared and have a lot of experience due to their location on the map.