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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
[*] Do we need an Air Force at all? Navy and Marine aviation does almost all of the combat support missions. We haven't employed high-level bombing by the Air Force since Viet Nam. Other than flying materiel and ammunition all over the world, what does the Air Force really do these days?
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What is the basis for your statement that Navy and Marines are doing all of the combat mission support? My nephew is a pilot in the Air Force and rotates in and out of the Middle East to support combat missions all the time.
While I appreciate the outside of the box thinking, I hope that the notion that we don't need an air force gets back into the box real quickly. The military gets accused of preparing for the last war; unforunately, civillians can be much more dangerous if they start thinking that the world is a safe place that doesn't require such things as an air force.