OK, Kalos, I see your point and I think it's a valid one. I'm not arguing that
all surplus USAF personnel would be ceded to the Army. In fact, I think my vision of USAF personnel in Army service better applies to overseas operations where combat is more intense and manpower needs are more dire.
If USAF personnel can be effectively used to secure
valuable territory in the U.S.A., there's no need to transfer them to a different service/task. On the other hand, not every airbase, or its surrounding territory, is going to be considered valuable to MilGov. You're still going to have surplus USAF personnel. Where do they go?
Looking at unit distributions in the U.S., there are large swaths of territory without any significant MilGov or CivGov presence. Putting aside Web's Thunder Empire materials for a moment (Not that there's anything wrong with them at all), there's not a single MilGov or CivGov army unit listed as present in Arizona c. 2000, that despite the existence of Luke AFB, Davis-Monthan AFB, and Ft. Huachuca (not to mention the USMC base facilities in Yuma). What does that mean? Does it mean that the USAF is solely responsible for securing/defending that area? If there are significant USAF cantonments, I wonder why the designers didn't list them. I'm not intimately acquainted with all of the CONUS modules so perhaps such lists exist.
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Originally Posted by kato13
In addition to desertion, the Soviets and the Mexicans MILGOV still has a lot to worry about. You also have CIVGOV, New America, marauders, warlords, separatists, etc. If you don't consolidate gains and fully stabilize parts of the nation you risk losing it all.
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Kato nailed it here.