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Originally Posted by Hitman
The real US army is today a sleeping giant, who wakes up only in important wars. I have often heard saying (Original from Napoleon) "Do not wake up China, let them sleep or the world will be shaken", but I say: Let the US Army sleep in peace...if it wakes up you will see the most terrible destruction machine ever created, backed up by the most powerful industrial nation in the world.
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As for US military manpower reserves, heres how it works if im not mistaken, from top of the barrel to the bottom of the barrel:
-Active duty
-Active Reserves (weekend warrior aka "citizen soldier" )
- National guard (same as above really, both maintain some sort of training program so their people keep up to date.)
- Individual Ready Reserve (aka IRR, or Inactive reserve. These are the guys who did their active duty commitment, but are subject to being oncall for 4 years after their discharge from active, they are for all intents and purposes, veterans who show up once a year for a physical, and see how much weight they've gained. No training program is kept here, theyre OUT, and DISCHARGED, but yet on call, go figure.)
- Draft. Once you tap in to the IRR the only other place to go to get warm bodies is the general populace.
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The U.S. military is not a "poor man's force." The data shows the force is more educated than the population at large. More servicemembers have some college than the typical 18- to 24-year-olds. On the socioeconomic side, the military is strongly middle class.
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This is becoming questionable as their letting in the "dull lightbulbs" these days:
http://www.slate.com/id/2133908/
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
Actually the USMC is an elite unit of the US Navy not the US Army.  |
Not quite accurate. They are a branch of the military that is in the department of the US Navy, however they are not the US Navy, nor are they in the US Navy.