Why do big commercial airplanes have wings on the bottom and big (US) military airplanes have their wings on top?

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Why do big commercial airplanes have wings on the bottom and big (US) military airplanes have their wings on top?

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Higher wings lift better.

For short, or relatively short, runways this is a huge boon.

Military aircraft are all about weight capacity, not fuel efficiency/cost reduction like a civilian aircraft.

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