re: Is being a member of 2 different branches of the military a thing?

I achieved the rank of sniper in the marines and I was a master chief in the space force

These colors don’t run baw

I was Army, then later in the Navy as a SeaBee.

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Yeah you can be in another branch and the navy at the same time because the navy doesn’t really do anything.

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Shots fired, I repeat, shots fired.

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nephew is a USN aviator who has been flying for the Canadian AF for the last 3-4 years

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Exchange program or actual transfer to another country's service?

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Apollo 11 astronauts Collins and Buzz Aldrin both graduated from West Point in the Army and served Air Force

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Yes, but the Air Force was part of the Army and didn't become an independent service until '47, which was about the time they enrolled, and the AFA wasn't founded until after they graduated.

At the time it wasn't really any different than the relationship of the Naval Academy to the Marines.

My father was in the Army in WWII and the Navy in Korea.

The Army put him in medical school but the war ended prior to him finishing. When Korea came around, he knew he would be called in so he volunteered as a physician in the Navy.

(They split his medical school class between the two branches and he saw that the Navy students were given a bump in rank and treated better while the Army students remained at the rank of Private.)

I never met any multi-branch guys while I was active duty. But during my time in the national Guard we had a former Marine on my gun crew.

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I have 2 uncles that went to the Naval Academy in the 50's, and both of them were in the Air Force.

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Likewise, there are many astronauts from the first three groups that fall into this category.

There was a good natured, sibling rivalry among the astronauts based on service branch. Alan Shepard, Wally Schirra and Jim Lovell were all straight Navy (USNA and naval aviators). But, guys like Jim Irwin, Tom Stafford, Bill Anders, and Charlie Duke all went to Annapolis, but served as USAF pilots.

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multi-branch guys

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Sticking with my astronaut theme - arguably America's 3 "most famous" astronauts during the height of the space race in the 1960s were (after the Moon landings), Neil Armstrong, John Glenn and Alan Shepard, more or less, in that order.

Having already covered Shepard (Naval Academy and USN, retiring as a Rear Admiral), Neil Armstrong was technically a draftee into the USN. After having famously eschewed MIT to attend school closer to home (Purdue), he did his required active duty stint, flew in the reserves for a few years and became a civilian in 1960.

John Glenn served in the US Army, US Navy AND the USMC.

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A lot of the USAF pilots who went into the early groups of the space program were West Point grads - Frank Borman (1950), Buzz Aldrin (1951), Michael Collins and Ed White (1952), Dave Scott (1954), and Al Worden (1956) were all part of the Apollo Program. All but White (America's first spacewalker and died in the Apollo 1 fire) went to the Moon and Buzz and Dave walked on the Moon.

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One of the reasons Mike Collins chose the Air Force is when he graduated, his uncle (Lightning Joe Collins) was Chief of Staff of the Army, his father was a two star, and his older brother was either a Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel...