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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
Ahhh the US Military! It seems that we spend so much time in-fighting and trying to out-do the other service branch that it is almost a miracle that we all come together and beat the shit out of some other enemy...or is more along the lines of someone sticking their nose into our inter-service squabbles?
ANybody remember the fun and games that took place when the Air Farce stripped fix-wing aircraft from the Army back in the early '50s? And how upset the Air Force was when the Army found the loophole that allowed them to field aircraft like the Caribou? Or how the Air Force howled when Congress forced them to buy more A-10s instead of F-16s...and how quickly the Warthogs were sent into the Reserves. Not to mention the maneuvers that took place when the Navy thought that they would have to use F-111s onboard their precious carriers.
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Yeah it still a miracle that Joint Fighter is still in development with the Air Force and the Navy/Marie Air going their own ways.
You forgot to mention about how the other services also 'adopted' M-16 or various versions of the AR-15 only after to take the bitter pill much like US forced the round onto NATO to only change to another version than the one the US Army had pick in return.