![]() The Air Force was trying to get rid of the A-10 back then and they are still trying. ![]() I took a lot of Bravo Sierra kidding from my fellow Army classmates being only one of three Air Force officers in the class. As an AF “ cop” I attend the Infantry Officer Basic Course and learned how to be an Infantry leader. Benning, Georgia to attend Army Infantry School. In the early 1980s the AF started sending their “ cops” to Ft. For thirty years the ground combat training was less than stellar. The “ cops” would sort of go into “ time-out” as policemen, stop doing police things like writing tickets, responding to calls and investigating crimes to become part-time Soldiers. So what the Air Force did with the coming of the Korean War, and ever since, was take the “ cops” of the Air Force whether they were called Military Police/MP, Air Police/AP, Security Police/SP or Security Forces/SF and declare in time of conflict the “ cops” were their Infantry. They do even worse now that these modern Airmen really do not see themselves as Soldiers. ![]() Pilots and maintainers did not make good Infantry back in 1942 when they still had the title Army written on their orders. So General MacArthur had these Army aircrew members and maintenance troops issued rifles, bayonets and WWI helmets so they could try to be part-time Infantry when the Japanese Army overran the islands. After the Japanese destroyed most of the US air assets on the ground in the Philippines there were a whole lot of Army-Airmen with nothing to do as practicing Airmen. ![]()
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