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Originally Posted by Spec6
I'm sorry to say it But Can you see an airforce General officer in Europe leting his comand be take over as infantry in the Army .
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I can see an Air Force officer of any rank following orders. The question is what orders SACEUR issues and for what reasons.
There is a logic to using squadrons of Air Force personnel as rear area security. There is an equal logic to using the warm bodies is whatever fashion circumstances dictate. Goering's approach gives us a fine example of how not to use excess airmen. As a practical matter, it's going to be more efficient to turn airmen into infantry (or whatever is required by the Army in 1998 and afterwards) than to turn civilians into infantry. By the same token, how does one answer the question asked by Joe when he perceives that the Air Force is doing rear area missions:
"What the [expletive deleted] are those Air Force [expletive deleted] doing in the [expletive deleted] rear with the [expletive deleted] gear? There aren't even any more [expletive deleted] planes flying! Why the [expletive deleted] do they get the easy jobs while we live in [expletive deleted] holes in the ground? They're in the [expletive deleted] military, aren't they?"
How does one answer that question with anything better than "Shut your cake hole, Smith!" After 1997, this answer will carry less and less authority (there being no cake left, and all).
All of this said, one of the Joint Chiefs is an airman. How he manages the irresistible pressure to yield some of his personnel to meet the needs of the Army with the very understandable desire to maintain an independent USAF would make for a very interesting thread.
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