eli5: Why does the US Military have airplanes in multiple branches (Navy, Marines etc) as opposed to having all flight operations handled by the Air Force exclusively?
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Let’s put in this way. Imagine if all of the cars, trucks, tanks, and anything else that ran on the ground belonged to the army.
So if the navy needed to load a ship and needed some trucks to transport the material and then a crane to load it, they’d have to call up the army and requisition it. You’d quickly see how this would be a huge bureaucratic nightmare.
You might think it a stupid example but in WWII Germany, the railways were controlled by competing branches and as a result nothing got through efficiently.
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