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Originally Posted by unkated
That is kind of a bogus argument IMHO. There is next to nothing in cannon that mention that there is an air force for any nation.
By the time the game starts in summer 2000, there has not been enough aircraft flying to be called an air force for a while. So they don't bother discussing it.
Don't mistake that for "the air force has left everything in place."
I think you get a number of base care and feeding people, who become wasted mouths unless you turn them into units that you need.
Aircraft mechanics without aircraft are pointless - but men under military discipline with basic weapons training are called green infantrymen. This is probably one of the sources of the reinforcements or 'rebuilding the division' that are mentioned in cannon.
Do recall that in V2, army troops that have no other qualification have the career "Support," but that does not stop them from being PC carrying a rifle in the game.
Uncle Ted
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Keep in mind that there is still Air Force activity in Iran and Kenya (as per Frank there are active air force units there) and also that even France has had to reduce its aircraft operations a lot - so no one is still running hundreds of planes anywhere
but even a small force of planes is still an air force - the US had only about a half dozen planes in Bataan during the whole siege but they were still able to effectively run missions, recon, etc. - but you are right there really isn't anything left that would qualify as a pre-war Air Force outside of France and Iran (and even in Iran those numbers are puny compared to what were originally there on all sides)