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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I’ll add that we don’t always get along. I’m retired here, so that’s my main perspective. AF leadership has different priorities than the Army, which has different priorities than Navy, which is different from the marines.
It’s bad enough that other branches can get told to pound sand, and their people get ignored as each branch only wants to do missions for its own priority. Imagine the army general asking for CAS while the AF says F’ off we’re going to bomb this other place.
It reminds me of when the AF was trying to dump the A-10, which was really just a bluff to get Congress to pay for that and their fancy new bombers. Anyway, the Army jumped up and said that they’d take them since it’s role is 90% army support anyway. The AF backed down real fast after that and kept funding the A-10.
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