There's the USAAF, the USAAB the USNAF, and the USMCA all saying what the fuck they want, but only 1 contract

honestly the USAF should just be in charge of air superiority. Nothing else.

They make fighters and shoot down planes.

NORAD handles strategic bombers

dont forget bombers

Nah, leave bombers to the individual branches

Strategic =/= Tactical

They can tailor them to their mission profiles

Does the Army operate any fixed wing aircraft?

I think so

But seriously, CAS/tac bombing should be left to the branch in question, with the Marines inheriting the USNAF.

So basically just bring back the USAAC

Then the USAF just has to worry about maintaining air superiority

And the USAAC/USNAF handle the ground support

those generals would never give it up

"BUT MUH BUDGETS REEEEEEE"

The USAAB only has EW fixed wing aircraft currently

***psssssst, that means electronic warfare***

Hmmm, I just found a problem. Do SEAD runs fall under ground support or air superiority?

Depends on who you ask and where

ground support to establish air superiority

Well in the context of a restructured USAF/USAAC/USNAF, would it fall to the ground pounders or the fighter jockies to do SEAD?

I mean urzu has a point

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.