Actually... the Air Force General or Navy Admiral wouldn't have to give up operational control over the personnel under them... The US Navy has created Naval Infantry Battalions in the past. And in the T2k universe, I can see this being done on a larger scale for both the USN and USAF.
The USAF could easily put together 'squadrons' of guntrucks based around field expediant guntrucks just like they had been with combat aircraft with their ground crews acting as support roles carrying out area control and security duties.
The USN would assemble their naval infantry battalions for similar roles... or actually assign them to the marine divisions to fill out/round out the marine TOE.
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