You've got the point here! Only one large Air Force, as Douhet would
say;-)

And USMC aviation is already getting into the shade of USN's one
failing to acquire new birds in time...


On 14 Kwi, 20:00, " wrote:

BTW, the USMC claims are somewhat bogus. Under the USAF doctrine that
control of air assets should be centralized, USAF, USN and USMC fast
movers are almost always under theater command these days, their
missions assigned by the Air Tasking Order from that HQ and are pretty
much viewed as interchangable.