Granted, the USAF wears postal uniforms and has confused military bases with country clubs, but we don’t go around disbanding an entire military branch because we might be able to get by without it for the next 15 minutes.
Well, it might look like a country club to you if you are coming from your average Army post which looks like a ghetto, but I assure you it isn't. I for one won't apologize for the appearance of AFB's. The Air Force believes, unlike some other services, that it's most important asset is it's people. We have a saying in the AF: Take care of the troops and the troops will take care of the mission.
No one said to disband it, just that the idea that things with wing need to be an autonomous entity with it’s own goals, budget beauracracy is another. Let the Navy run the bombers and the army the attack aircraft. Bet it would still be the best in the air and probably more effective.
‘Granted, the USAF wears postal uniforms and has confused military bases with country clubs, but we don’t go around disbanding an entire military branch because we might be able to get by without it for the next 15 minutes.’
Nobody is saying ‘disband’ its more a ‘realignment’.
Anyone else remember the Air Force insisting the Army couldn’t put weapons on Helicopters?
I do. It was in the 1960’s, and a lot of our troops on the ground died because of that nonsense before it was corrected.
Integrate it into the Army. Perhaps then we will get the ground support aircraft needed, without the bickering interservice.