The Air Force should be disbanded.

I usually use it in the terms of not knowing, or uneducated. I typically don't ignore much. Air support is applied by all branches, in one way or another. In many cases this is done so that the operation can be coordinated by one branch, one division, one battalion, et cetera. This is why we call it the "Airborne Cavalry." Depending on the chief of operations in the mission in which support is being called down, it is just as likely that the gunship, whether fix winged or rotor my respond, or an air force or navy craft in the area may respond. They aren't always scrambled from the hanger or the flight deck, often air support is always in the air, such as when the Air Force was responsible for patrolling the no fly zone in Iraq for more than a decade without the support of the Army. The Air Force actually has been manning convoys on the ground in Iraq. Update your facts. The Bush Administration reduced the number of standing divisions in the Army before the Iraq episode happened. A lot of the slack has been absorbed by the Marine Corps, and the Air Force. This is done by necessity, so it doesn't help my argument much, but the airmen are on the ground driving around in trucks just like the soldiers and marines. The Air Force was created in 1947. It used to be the Army Air Force who flew. The NAVY flew in the Pacific. That right there shows that we dont need a whole longer department taht costs the most when it can just join up with the army and cut costs tremendously since everyone complains about our "National Debt" The Army Air Force was split off from the Army largely due to the fact that there were massive funding battles. Generals are not all united, and often have their own unique ideas or goals. Recombining the Air Force with the Army, to create an Army Air Corps would likely result in money intended to provide fighter air craft, or joint strike air craft being diverted to fit immediate needs in the Army. Such as tiny little details like the fact that nothing destroys a HUMVEE faster than up armoring it, or making it put on tens of thousands of miles a month. So, those will likely need to be replaced very soon, as well as the needed increase in mine resistant up armored vehicles. The Air Corps will be forced to compete with other needs, in a military that is being over funded, yet drastically underfunded in the areas where they actually need to maintain an operational capacity. Senator Biden's plan for a total reform and overhaul of the U.S. military would save about a trillion dollars over the next decade, while strengthening the military, but amazingly he won't be the president thanks to a massive misunderstanding of the U.S. Military. UAV's should stay with the air force. Period. Sticking them to the army will cause them to be deployed where the Army is deployed. The Air Force strategic operations focus on a wider lens, and it will be easier to send Air Force UAVs to other regions, such as our massive borders that might need to be patrolled over the next several decades. Also, the UAV needs to be concerned with more than just recon, seeing as in the future it will be likely that there will be hunter seeker UAVs. The Air Force needs weapons. They're trying to replace combat arms that they've maintained for the last two or three decades, the attempt to buy M4s is part of an effort to standardized the ammunition used by the united states military, and I'll be honest, I'm opposed to it. So I agree with you, they don't need M4s, but everyone is going to have M4s, and those weapons do get used. It's also better to have them for when they're needed, lest it will be incredibly bad to discover, "Oh yeah, maybe we should have given them guns and training. That might have helped with that battle." Al-Qaeda came to Iraq when we did, but they're not the only fighting force that is in the Iraq that is opposed to us. To call this the "war on terror" is a very immature way to describe the battle. Raiding houses, running convoys, and hunting down a local insurgency is not counter terrorism, it's counter revolutionary, and is simply a military operation. Counter terrorism cannot and should not be broadly applied to an entire region or battle field. That attitude will cause a lot of the rules of war to be violated as every civilian becomes a potential terrorist. To be honest, I'd have to go into the Navy. My personality might work as a navy officer. I'm not enough of a "Kiss A$$" to make it very far in the other branches. However, my attitudes might make me a decent potentate of a ship. I actually kind of wouldn't mind if you won the debate. My schedule has been totally messed up this weekend, including the fact that I'm sitting next to a slender blond girl who is waiting for me to take her to dinner and a movie, and thus I can't really invest any more time in making this argument =-) To close, the Air Force is needed simply because to attempt to organize both the goals and priorities of the Air Force and the Army would not be handled very well as people responsible for different goals and priorities go at it behind the scenes for priorities in funding and operational preferences.