[TheThirdRuffian]

“ The air wing of the Army is pretty big as well”

Unless things have changed, when I was in it was 99% rotary of some kind and a handful of fixed wing. Probably more drones now than then, but still ground support mission.

Attack helicopters et al are cool and I’m alive due to their support and evacuation, but a 80 year old P51 vs an Apache, I’d probably bet on the WWII tech. I think a helicopter took out one Mig during the very first gulf war, but I think it was kind of a fluke.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Nam era days, the Army had more pilots than all the other branches combined.

[higgmeister]

In 1979 I was stationed with the USAF overseas in the Azores Islands, Portugal way out in the North Atlantic.   Our Air Force maintained the American part of the airbase but had no aircraft assigned.   The Naval Air Station at the end of the runway had the only aircraft assigned, Lockheed P-3 Orion sub hunters.   The deep water port tugboats were manned by our US Army, with Senior Warrant Officer Tug Boat Captains.

In addition to that, the Navy had a NSGA facility with giant rotating log periodic antennas constantly searching for radio signal intelligence to pinpoint locations by triangulation with other groups in the network.

[xone]

In France and Belgium people are still injured from land mines left over after WWI.

Well, we own both of them. If the Apache saw them, it would be a short fight.