It's a ground target, but then again, to establish true air superiority you need to push beyond the AO of the ground support to proactively intercept enemy fighters

Hell it's redundant

You're aware the U.S Army still has a minor air corps with Apaches

And the USMC has its own entire *wing*

The USMC MAGTAF/MEU system gives us everything from bombers to transport to attack and support helicopters. Not even including all of our jets.

You know, that branch dedicated to Amphibious landings when the largest amphibious landing in history was done by the U.S Army

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honestly

SEAD duties fall onto the air force

because they got the anti-radiation missiles

army could develop modified MANPAD's that can fire anti-rad missiles

but the point of the missile is to engage radar air defences from long range without being detected

might as well just walk up to the radar system and put on some c4

at that point

@Punished Ggnome lets be real tho when was the last time the Marines actually did the job they were created for? WWII? Korea?

I mean the USMC is basically the Army in different camo nowadays

More like stormtroopers. The USMC wins battles, Army wins wars.

We've seen this with Somalia handover and Fallujah handover.

USMC holds and keeps those places relatively secure, hand it over to the Army and they lose it within two weeks.

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lmao, I mean you aren't wrong

Aren't Army units fitted out with National Guard anyways

They called us White Sleeves in Somalia due to rolling BDUs

Basically, during the Surge until '14, a lot of the U.S Army troops were fucking nasty guard

Most of our friendly fire incidents in the past 100 years have been reservists btw

Because what is maintaining manpower levels

And almost all of them have reservists involved

not to be unexpected

I use this to regularly piss off National Guardsmen

reservists don't see much action, if any at all

And reservist Marines

I mean they're reserve for a reason

they're more of a stopgap in the event of war breaking out

>Expecting under equipped, undertrained inexperienced troops to be able to hold areas against a hardened insurgency force with experience, and means/willpower to take on a superior force

"How does it feel that the Finance Marine shoots better than you, reservist?"

It's like you almost expect too much from NG

they're there until actually trained units can be pumped out daily

I expect professionalism in the U.S military. I am regularly disappointed.

Now that I'm out of country, a lot of NATO countries think we're dog shit but, they don't dare repeat it due to our influence financially and troop numbers.

Well the lack of manpower wouldn't be an issue if the politicians stopped stepping the military down between wars

A lot of the European armies like Poland and the Nordics view us as we viewed the Soviets in WW2