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The USAF Veterinary technicians and veterinarians caught the Army Inspectors taking bribes. The Army lobby was so incensed that they began a program to say that the Army and USAF Veterinary Services were duplicitous. Actually, the end was a shell game and we now have Army veterinarians on USAF bases that have nothing to do with the many other duties that the USAF Veterinarians were capable of doing.The end result was that the USA Veterinary service expanded but the overall cost was increased because the Army Veterinarians do not oversee the Public health, NBC monitoring, food procurement, sanitation, and off base inspections that the USAF veterinarians also performed at the USAF Bases. Find any former USAF 908, Veterinary Technician, or veterinarian that was on duty during 1973-1982 and they can tell you how the politics destroyed a superb well trained efficient career field. It took three Army veterinary technicians to do the duty of one USAF 908. USAF Vet techs had to be in the top 5% of the basic medic class, score above 90 on the AFQT tests, and undergo a secret to top secret clearance as well as a thorough training in the USAFR 30-30...the reg that spelled out bribes and punishment.