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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
What about the 101st Airbourne? Or the 4th Infantry Division?
I've heard that the Screaming Eagles are the elite too. I've also heard that the 4th Inf Div is the most technologically advanced fighting unit on Earth; they get all the new toys before any other unit in the US Army.
Either that, or the documentaries I'm watching are bunkum. Not entirely impossible I might add...
Mr Mephisto
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The way it was explained to me right before basic was that marines are on par with all the groups you are referring to.
See they are the elites of their branches. Marines are on par with them.
Then there's Recon.
So now you get a sense of what's going on. The 'average' marine's training is on par with the elite segments of the other branches, and then they have their elite, which places them in a class by themselves.
But that could have all been smoke to convince us young men that death was honor.