We covered a great deal of the discussion on the use of USAF and USN personnel after the Exchange in a previous thread. I’m going to maintain the same thing I did then. The use to which “surplus” airmen and seamen are put will depend a great deal on local circumstances. As long as the United States has a maritime interest, there will be a Navy. The scope and scale of the Navy’s missions and resources in 2000 is a matter for debate. By the same token, as long as there is something that flies there will be a USAF.
If memory serves, folks came up with a variety of arrangements for USAF and USN personnel that did not mean automatic induction into the Army or the Marine Corps (though I believe there was a general consensus that the Air Force and the Navy were going to have to give some warm bodies to the ground pounders). For my own part, I contributed the fate of USAF 355th Wing (which was absorbed by the Fort Huachuca command and reflagged as 355th Battalion), USAF 99th Wing (which absorbed all government forces in Clark County, NV before relocating to Sacramento and ultimate dismemberment), and the ad hoc 2nd Naval Infantry Battalion “Blue Two” (which was assembled in Alameda, CA for the purpose of providing a QRF for the San Francisco Bay Area).
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