I believe the Marines hold a special claim to the word honor and sacrifice. I also hold any branch of the American military in the highest respect. While in the Army National Guard I was impressed to see that every member of my Scout Platoon was prior service from each branch. The depth of experience we had was impressive for what some call weekend warriors. We had men with Tank experience, Artillery, Air Traffic Control (yours truelly), Sniper, ... about half these men had seen combat in Grenada, Panama, 1st Gulf War and Bosnia. The awesome part about this unit was we all knew the negatives to being in the military (low pay, lack of freedom, long hours...) but we each reupped because it was what we chose to do. These were the greatest bunch of guys I've ever worked with.