{"id":48563,"date":"2014-05-23T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48563"},"modified":"2014-05-23T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T13:08:30","slug":"poll-army-most-important-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48563","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Army most important service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, that&#8217;s not me talking, it&#8217;s the poll of Americans from Gallup at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/may\/23\/army-most-important-marines-most-prestigious-poll-\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gallup started asking Americans about the importance of U.S. military branches in the 1940s, using a variety of questions over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Americans until the mid-2000s always viewed the Air Force as the most important branch of the military. While it still ranks high today, it no longer dominates, the pollsters said.<\/p>\n<p>Importance does not necessarily equal prestige.<\/p>\n<p>The Marine Corps has consistently been considered the nation\u2019s most prestigious military branch, even if not the most important, with nearly half of Americans \u2014 47 percent \u2014 saying they respect Marines the most.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force was a distant second, with 17 percent saying is was the most prestigious branch, said the poll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite successful Navy SEALs raids that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011 and helped rescue the captain of the merchant marine vessel Maersk Alabama from pirates in an incident that was the basis of the movie \u2018Captain Phillips,\u2019 the Navy\u2019s image has not benefited,\u201d Gallup noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is me gloating over here; Chief Shipley and I have a running email battle in regards to Army\/Navy insults. Maybe the Navy needs to make more movies about what .01% of their personnel do to improve their image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, that&#8217;s not me talking, it&#8217;s the poll of Americans from Gallup at the Washington Times; &hellip; <a title=\"Poll: Army most important service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48563\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: Army most important service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,232,184,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-army-news","category-marine-corps","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}