Like I stated in the Air Force and Naval commanders would retain certain amount of their force to help maintain what is left that make usable what facilities they have to maintain what left of their forces. Also with their bases still potential to raid would beef security forces, but there would still be more than enough forces left over that they would have to be turned over to Army or Marine units. In some case they would form their own 'Infantry Battalions', 'Security Battalions', 'Support Battalions' and at time 'Infantry Brigade/Regiments' (much like the school brigade from Fort Bliss of the US Army), while in other cases, especially if they are sent to established Divisions to help make up for the losses, they would be used as individual replacements. It would depend on the 'local' command structure. Sometime the local Air Force or Naval commander would be the ranking member and they would prefer to have their men not assigned as cannon fodder, so it would depend on the location of the base where the excess personnel were coming from. Yeah, lot of them would/could be used as more or less local security force with the goal to preserve force while claiming they were doing the best they could do....
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