why is it a large majority of america think there so great?

Question

ive seen it on youtube and on yahoo

there have been questions on whos infantry is better and who gets better training. One american said, australia gets worser training because there still a 3rd world country.

That just goes to show there geography... secondly, they seize to realise that there marine corpse is not the best. An australian riflemen gets more training then a marine and our entry standards are higher, we dont allow CRIMINALS or ex dopers in our military.
Secondly theres alot of stuff about our airforce thats been going on. Saying that our hornets are crap etc. Well america still uses the hornets and unless them our pilots identify targets first by looking at a big orange flashing panel on a tank that is clearly british before making a decision to shoot, and obviously we dont.
Not only that our army in afghanistan doesen't have the reputation of raping women and children and so far we have had no friendly fire incidents.
Thats my 2 cents...

Answer 1

I think many people who post videos on youtube tend to be quite immature and very full of themselves.



I am not American, but I wouldn't judge a whole nation by a few videos on youtube or a few answers on yahoo.



Sadly, if anyone seems bigoted and full of themselves it seems to be you.



Also what were Australians doing flying during the Blitz, unless they had joined the Luftwaffe and were bombing London. During the Blitz over a million homes in London were destroyed and tens of thousands were killed.



http://homepage.eircom.net/~finnegam/war/blitz.htm



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz



If you are referring to the Battle of Britain, then there were 21 Australian pilots.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-British_personnel_in_the_RAF_during_the_Battle_of_Britain

Answer 2

To start with I do not think any or at worst very few American miitary serve personnel active or retired would say anything negative about the Australian military forces being serious-joking between ourselves yes but we also do that between the branches here. I served in Vietnam and the reputation of the Australian military there was very high and was well deserved and having worked with them in exercises afterwards so I for one know that they were and are an excellent service. Second thing is that using YouTube or even YA to gauge any opinions of the US population is not a good or accurate measure-like here many of the YouTube "military experts" are getting the information from gaming, just talking, books, rumor and have no real life experience or first hand knowledge of what they are talking about. Too much political or personal opinion and no basic knowledge or information to base it on. Last thing is you don't sound much better-the isolated incident of rape and killing women and children is really not an honest or accurate portrayal of the opinion most Iraqi or Afghani's have of the US military and the firendly fire incidents are a combination of lack of experience working together and the lack of them with British and Astralian forcees is also because the great majority of the artillery and air support is provided by the US as the other nations involved are mainly infantry and they did not bring the heavier support equipment with them. Being a retired Marine I have exceptionally high regard for the F/A-18 and it is a first line fighter attack aircraft; we often participated or assisted in Air Force eercises at Nellis and did well there and were on par with the Air Force units-sometimes we won and sometimes we lost so all that talk from "military expert techno-geeks is just that talk; I heard one talk about the superiority of the F-22 in ground attacks; to start with the F-22 has not done any real ones which is what counts in the real world and secondly they haven't done play ones either as they are a straight fighter with no or very limited ground support capability; the F-35 is the new fighter attack aircraft replacing the F/A-18, AV-8 and Air Force ground support capable aircraft and it is not operational yet. Being a retired Marine I would rate the Australian infantry highly but also not better then the Marines-you ask an Aussie infantryman the question and he will give you the opposite answer; who is better can only be answered if we fight each other and that hasn't and hopefully never will happen.

Answer 3

The united states is considered at this point, an elite fighting force, from a global standpoint. After that, you take everything with a grain of salt. Going into combat, you want to believe your side is the best. That's pretty much common sense. I don't really agree with some of the things said, and especially don't agree with degrading the armies of your own allies. When we got into the grind, it was nice that Ausies weren't riding koalas, actually. A part of it is psychological. It is different expressions of the "alpha male" syndrome, but in this case, it is alpha fighting force. Some people are ignorant and will always be great for military because they retain information as fact and never process it. (lifelong E-3's) I love to believe that our country has the greatest fighting force on the planet at this time. But in time, that will change. People always forget about china.............

Answer 4

I have trained next to Australians before and they are not so tough. They are not so aggressive which makes them less combat effective. However there is one major difference between American Infantry and Aussie boot licks. We can use a dictionary and spell properly. For example, the word "there" implies a direction or location. I believe you wanted to write "their". Also there is no such word as worser. The adjective "bad" become worse in the comparative, and worst in the superlative.

Anyway, why do you object to allowing criminals serve in the military? Some countries let criminals into their country, and others were founded by them. (psst..check your history kangaroo boy!)



US Army Infantry Rules!

Answer 5

A word of advice - take every comment you read on Youtube with a grain of salt, especially on military videos. Most people commenting there are about 14 and consider themselves "future sf" or something.

Answer 6

well I see that in other countries as well and I say only the youth think that way in every country ,....I will say though and I am an OLDER person.... WE ( US) has GREAT military because I have come from a military background, married to a ret vietnam vet and have 2 sons that have served their country as well... Ive seen it first hand unlike many that like to say stuff on here that they truely know nothing about!!!

Answer 7

I'm just going to read your first question, and not the rest-



It's pretty standard for the majority of a populace to think their nation or military is great. That's just national pride.

Answer 8

What ever dude, most of the stuff you said was pure crap. Every army has it's idiots, and also Americas and Britains armys don't hold what people have done in the past against them.

Answer 9

not something new under the solar. The graft and mendacity has been happening in politics and our united states via fact it became shaped. the only way out is to get production back into our united states. If it takes "super presents" to maintain our companies making products here, then, I vote, for commonplace presents.

Answer 10

im one of the few americans then that think our military isn't the greatest...the soldiers themselves are idiots, well most of them are, and the ones that make our military *the best* are the ones not wasting their time making videos for Youtube and yahoo videos. I think our best allies are UK and Australia and I know for a fact that the Australian military AND Uk military have a better Special forces then the US, but I dont know about airforce though.



my 2 cents.

Answer 11

I guess the same reason's Australians are narrow minded, gullible and prejudicial.



How can anybody judge a country by what they see on youtube, never mind without actually being there to experience it 1st hand.

Answer 12

it's called nationalism, like sectarianism or racialism, they believe thier group is superior. It's what marketing and product placement is all about. You are just from a different corporation.

Answer 13

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