Army No One Played Navy

Army No One Played Navy Parody Art. 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. The phrase “Army because no one played Navy as a kid” is a popular piece of military humor and inter-service banter that plays on childhood imagination. As children, many people grow up playing games like “army,” “cops and robbers,” or running around with imaginary rifles, crawling in the dirt, and wearing camouflage. Very few children grow up running around neighborhoods staging large-scale naval blockades, commanding destroyers in puddles, or yelling maritime battle orders – making the U.S. Army feel like the default, action-hero choice imprinted on kids growing up. The saying highlights the lifelong, good-natured rivalry between branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, poking fun at the Navy by suggesting people only join it later in life rather than dreaming about it on the playground.