IMO, and in any campaign I run, a lot of Air Force and Navy personnel have been funneled (voluntarily, at least at first) into Army replacements. I envision a mass retraining program set up in the winter of 98-99 or 99-00 to retrain them as infantry replacements. Likely each field army and division would have its own training detachment, and then shuffle units out of the line to integrate them over time. To me, the best time to do this would be in the winter, while the formations are in cantonments-- lots of time for small-unit training and patrolling.
Any others, who don't or can't volunteer for combat-arms replacements, would get moved to support & service functions. Possibly the Army could disband its own service functions, and transfer most of the soldiers there to the combat arms, while Air Force & Navy personnel take over the base functions.
OTOH: I remember reading in the '90s that the US Air Force had nearly as many Air police & security squadrons as the Army had infantry battalions. YMMV.
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