Interservice rivalry
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Interservice rivalry is rivalry between different branches of a country's armed forces. This may include competition between land, marine, naval, coastal, air, intelligence, or space forces.
U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen taunting U.S. Military Academy cadets before the 2008 Army–Navy Game
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff position, the highest-ranking position within the U.S. Armed Forces, and several important command positions, such as unified combatant commands, have been mostly dominated by U.S. Army generals.
Marines and sailors competing in a strongman competition
Crayon-eating Marine trope
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The crayon-eating Marine is a humorous trope associated with the United States Marine Corps, emerging online in the early 2010s. Playing off of a stereotype of Marines as unintelligent, the trope supp
Interservice rivalry
…with the rivalries usually only manifesting as in-jokes and light-hearted stereotypes (such as, in the United States Armed Forces, the stereotype that marines eat crayons) or, in more serious contexts, organisational politics disputes that are usually resolved over time. However, in rare instances, interservice rivalries…
Maximilian Uriarte helped popularize the trope through his comic Terminal Lance.