It was a joke ....... it just seems with the lesbian in charge of the Air Force Academy and the new "revelation" of the gay Defensive Back at the USAF being praised, the press seems to love the USAF.....
Here's another fact that you might enjoy if you're in the USAF....or since you're using WWII casualty stats the US Army Air Corps.
The Air Corps was pre- then early WWII. That again evolved to the US Army Air Force (USAAF) then stayed that way until the USAF was born in 1947.