theoldyoungguy
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Im going to touch upon a subject here that is widely open to judgement, and that is the treatment of combat arms towards non combat arms soldiers and vice versa. This subject has been on my mind as im continually hearing gripes about other trades within the CF and the hostilities amongst eachother. With that said im gonna try to be objectional here and i mean absolutely no offence to anyone in the CF as we are all soldiers first.
To begin, lets start with the combat arms and there feelings of service and support personal. The reason for there hostility towards them is fairly simple, combat arms soldiers feel as if though there jobs are more important as they carry more risk, and to a certain extent it is tru, wihtout the comabt arms, there would be no military, but the same goes for the service and support, without them us combart arms cannot do our job, we need them or were screwed, and we give them purpose. From my experience one of the reasons of hostility is due to the regular civi folk knowing very little about the military, they assume everyone is infantry and/or drive tanks. due to this the combat arms feel angered that the service and support are stealing there thunder if u will. a combat arms soldier is generaly put under alot more stress and greater danger in deployment, but thats not to say support personal arent in danger or arent under a great threat, it was just a generallity. To jump to the point these combat soldiers feel that the support troops are getting just as much credit as they are for there work, and for a combat arms soldier especially infantrymen the amount of danger in the job is overcome by an immense amount of pride in knowing ur doing the job most others could not or did not want to do, so in a sense it is a smash on there pride, the one thing they have to keep them going in harsh deployments. another reason for the anger towards support is ignorant attitude of SOME suport troops and that they are not in the infantry for example because it is a shit simple job and anyone can do it. Infantry soldiers take great offence to this. Yes anyone can do it assum,ing they have self determination and good drive, but to say u can do there job just as well as they can do is ignorant, u know the basics, however they do it on a daily basis. just as they learn to survive in desolate climates, the support learn how to fix there trucks in desolate places. both trades can do the same job, but both have there area of expertise.
Now since ive brought out the combat arms(mainly infantry) gripes about the support troops, ill aruge the other side. the support troops feel angered at the childish attitude of the comabt arms. they feel we are all soldiers first and all are taught infantry tactics and therefore are equal. we all wear the uniform and al deserve the respect that goes with it. Additionally they dislike the attitude of the combat arms soldiers who have there attitudes for the reasons above. and the combat arms types have been known to grossly be childish about those reaons and treating the support as second class soldiers.
To sum up, it comes down to the old 5 grade playground type scenario. both groups angry at eachother because they say and do things behind eachothers backs. i think what the CF needs amongst its members is more respect. THe infatry and combat types need to realise, without the cook to cook them a meal, without the trucker to drive them to there patrol area, without the weapons and supply techs to get them there equipment and fix there weapons, and without the logistics to pay our salary and organize the daily operation of the CF, those comabt types are ineffective and irrelevent. and at the same time the combat arms is the purpose of the army and the support is there to support the combat arms. Everyone in uniform is a soldier, and everyone sacrafices so much of there life for our beautiful country, and all deserve a great amount of respect, but i belive the first step towards greater harmony is greater respect amongst ourselves.
any thoughts?
To begin, lets start with the combat arms and there feelings of service and support personal. The reason for there hostility towards them is fairly simple, combat arms soldiers feel as if though there jobs are more important as they carry more risk, and to a certain extent it is tru, wihtout the comabt arms, there would be no military, but the same goes for the service and support, without them us combart arms cannot do our job, we need them or were screwed, and we give them purpose. From my experience one of the reasons of hostility is due to the regular civi folk knowing very little about the military, they assume everyone is infantry and/or drive tanks. due to this the combat arms feel angered that the service and support are stealing there thunder if u will. a combat arms soldier is generaly put under alot more stress and greater danger in deployment, but thats not to say support personal arent in danger or arent under a great threat, it was just a generallity. To jump to the point these combat soldiers feel that the support troops are getting just as much credit as they are for there work, and for a combat arms soldier especially infantrymen the amount of danger in the job is overcome by an immense amount of pride in knowing ur doing the job most others could not or did not want to do, so in a sense it is a smash on there pride, the one thing they have to keep them going in harsh deployments. another reason for the anger towards support is ignorant attitude of SOME suport troops and that they are not in the infantry for example because it is a shit simple job and anyone can do it. Infantry soldiers take great offence to this. Yes anyone can do it assum,ing they have self determination and good drive, but to say u can do there job just as well as they can do is ignorant, u know the basics, however they do it on a daily basis. just as they learn to survive in desolate climates, the support learn how to fix there trucks in desolate places. both trades can do the same job, but both have there area of expertise.
Now since ive brought out the combat arms(mainly infantry) gripes about the support troops, ill aruge the other side. the support troops feel angered at the childish attitude of the comabt arms. they feel we are all soldiers first and all are taught infantry tactics and therefore are equal. we all wear the uniform and al deserve the respect that goes with it. Additionally they dislike the attitude of the combat arms soldiers who have there attitudes for the reasons above. and the combat arms types have been known to grossly be childish about those reaons and treating the support as second class soldiers.
To sum up, it comes down to the old 5 grade playground type scenario. both groups angry at eachother because they say and do things behind eachothers backs. i think what the CF needs amongst its members is more respect. THe infatry and combat types need to realise, without the cook to cook them a meal, without the trucker to drive them to there patrol area, without the weapons and supply techs to get them there equipment and fix there weapons, and without the logistics to pay our salary and organize the daily operation of the CF, those comabt types are ineffective and irrelevent. and at the same time the combat arms is the purpose of the army and the support is there to support the combat arms. Everyone in uniform is a soldier, and everyone sacrafices so much of there life for our beautiful country, and all deserve a great amount of respect, but i belive the first step towards greater harmony is greater respect amongst ourselves.
any thoughts?
