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What you’re saying about being dissed

The dead and wounded Air Force members, while they should be revered, were performing a redundant mission that was essentially meeting military needs that regular ground forces could not provide due to undermanning. The argument that 71 percent of the Air Force has deployed since 2001 is again dubious, because the chief does not explain where they deployed. How many deployed to Korea? Al-Dhafra? Also, regardless of whether or not an individual deployed, it doesn’t explain how their mission is unique to the Air Force or why the Air Force deserves to be a separate branch. Many, many taskings for these deployments are truly Army taskings. I’d like to see [the Air Force chief of staff] provide an honest figure of how many deployments are truly something only a highly skilled airman could do.

— Pueblo

It is really weird that a soldier is dogging the Air Force. I find this weird because I have just completed my third nine-month deployment driving convoys FOR an Army unit. Also, before this comes up, it is not the Army’s fault that we are doing [in-lieu-of] missions. They simply did not have the manning. I would hope they would do the same for us.

— jason0926

Army Air Corps here we come! You all know it’s coming eventually. Don’t fight it. They are our daddy.

— Max Power

Suggesting that the Air Force should be disbanded because it doesn’t share a significant portion of the combat effort in the [Afghanistan and Iraq wars] is so ridiculously stupid. ... Last I checked the Navy wasn’t doing much either in this war, but no one’s suggesting that they be rolled into another service. The days of state-on-state warfare are not behind us. We need to be prepared to one day fight in such a war. Disbanding the Air Force as its own branch will significantly diminish our ability to do just that. It is not mere coincidence that all the world superpowers have a separate branch for the Air Force.

— Sigecaps

Isn’t it ironic that at a time when most Americans put the military at the very top of government organizations and people they trust, that we within the military seem so willing to slash and burn each other to death!

It appears to my eye that it’s way past time we turn our guns back on the real enemy — al-Qaida and Islamofascism — and stop trying to tear each other apart.

— SkyhawlO

If Army and AF combined, some results would be:

Each gym would have a general to lead the exercise.

A wing would consist of nine or 10 aircraft, so all generals would have a job.

The “corporal of the guard” would a major’s job.

Require a doctorate in science to get promoted above a captain.

Etc., Etc.

— Ramprat