Why do we have a USAF?

the navy has more aircraft than the af and the army more boats than the navy. the af is just a postal service-they get the personnel, the supplies, and the ordnance where we need it sent. everything they do can very easily be absorbed into the other branches.

naval aviators have historically been better than af pilots-and before you start talking about fighter killcounts remember that the AAC counted grounded birds, and that marine and naval squadrons rotated crews and changed designations often.

the air force is so big because it is needlessly bloated. yes it takes a ton of maintenance and manhours to keep those birds airborne but there are so many redundant and needless extensions of that branch.

as far as military discipline goes theyre severely lacking-from outright demanding the best living conditions and bitching incessantly that its never good enough to mollycoddling their servicemembers in case anyone is butthurt in the slightest-all to often they prove themselves to be a bunch of self-important and self-gratifying needy little whiners.

the bias in the air force to prefer pilots to everything is ridiculous-10% of officers fly anything other than a desk! youre pushing them and shoving the folks who keep that bloated monster running off to the side, to further a self-aggrandizing view of The Way Things Are(nt).

its sad, but if you spend any amount of time living amongst them youll see it. and there are too many good airmen out there who will never get the glamor or the glory the af hypes because theyre in positions that by their nature are unnoticed when theyre going smoothly.

Air supremacy is still critically essential for any ground war to be successful. You may want to familiarize yourself with military strategy before making your ridiculous statements. To this day, and for the foreseeable future, the fighter plane is the guarantor of air supremacy, and still operates heavily over Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere any conflict occur.

Naval Air, although great in every way, are limited by their location and the constant threat of attack. There are just so many aircraft carriers, but hundreds of Air Force bases that can launch at a moments notice.

The role of the Army and Air Force are too different to link them. That's why they were almost immediately separated after WW2.

Except the problem is, the Navy only has 668 fighters.

So if you put the Air Force back in the Army.

Then you would have one branch of the Army with 40% of the personal in the Army.

Because it would still take the same number of people.

Thats why they split it off in the first place.

It was so large.

to keep people like ur a s s safe at night the air force has planes in ready to prevent a nuke from reaching our country, we have a usaf for air supieriority and subs are meant as a war detterent and the army has given up the air misson back in 1947

"the age of the fighter plane" is almost over because we are SO superior that no one else is even trying

What does it really matter to you. Obviously you arent even enlisted in anything. A**hole!

Whew !, I'm glad you're not in charge.

I love people who have no idea what there talking about ......