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Originally posted by swede79
Good job, Raven, I've never seen a post that insulted veterans so much. REMF is a military term, it's funny hearing a civilian using it - like you would know.

The FEBA and FLOT (look them up) change so drastically in modern warfare, the rear and the front can change in minutes.

As for the knife, well, I'll keep my opinion to myself.
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Swede79,
I really think, in some VERY important ways, the LONG tail/tooth ratio (aka the fact we have so called REMFs) is why the US military works as WELL as it does! It takes a lot of support troops to keep an F-15 flying, the C5s delivering the goods, the choppers doing their thing.

The trick the US Military uses is it's NOT the guy you see that you have to worry about - it's the stuff supporting him - the old saying "What's the most dangerous thing on the battlefield?" "A Grunt with a radio"

I've never served, but I keep my mouth quiet, and get to hang with some guys who have "Been There, done that" and have the scars to prove it. They have a bunch of respect for a lot of the RE guys, but then again, you meet the occasional "Perfumed Prince" too
 
I don't think anything has been said here that is disrespectful to vets. REMF is just a term that Soldiers use in harmless, even good-natured, jabs at other Soldiers.
Don't read more into it than is really there.
In the Army they say it takes about 12 men to keep one man operational in the field.

BTW, the REMFs have there nicknames for front-line troops too...

GRUNT= Ground Roving, Usually Not Trainable
DAT= Dumb-Ass-Tanker
DAGB= Dumb-Ass-Gun-Bunnie
11-Bravo= 11-Bulletmagnet, 11-Bulletstopper, 11-Bolo
Army cook, death from within!
Medics, we bury our mistakes!
Combat Engineer= ditch-digging infantry.
Signal= commo-puke.

I don't know any Soldier, Sailor, Airman, or Marine who takes that stuff seriously. If they did they would have never survived Basic!

Joke'em if they can't take a f***!
Allen.
 
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