if the branches of the US military were fighting against one another

[slatr]

FYI - Both the Navy and Army (individualy) have more fighter jets than the AIrForce
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When did the Army get fixed-wing aircraft?

They are only supposed to have helicopters.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: asm0deus
army has planes too and paratroopers, they get my vote.. how they would take out the subs is questionable, they'd have to team up with someone.

wrong

the Army the only planes the army has are small prop planes used for spotting. but there arent many of those left.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: swtethan
navy, they have the mobility, range and firepower (planes)

but limited on range and munitions. A squadron of carrier based F-18's isnt going to do crap to a target say a infrantry division in Iowa. can you say Stinger missile teams? that alone would totally f*ckup any navy plans.

 

[tranceport]

I really think Army. They have the largest aircraft inventory. Not the Airforce.

 

[JRich]

Originally posted by: tranceport
I really think Army. They have the largest aircraft inventory. Not the Airforce.

Are you counting the helicopters? If you aren't then name some Army aircraft.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Superself
Army would win easily.

I don't care how many bombs you drop.

Unless you can put troops on the ground, it ain't yours.

exactly my thoughts (though I am not sure if the Army or Marines would win). ok, the USAF and Navy would cause extremely heavy losses, but they do not have a bomb for every soldier. Furthermore, the Army/Marines are trained more for individual combat. One other thing. Depending on how it starts, the Army would have a much greater geographical advantage. The reserve components are spread over the entire country, meaning that the Army would have an immediate response, whereas the USAF would be slowly gearing up.

I'm going to have to disagree with you... there are AFB and AFReserves everywhere.

True, but AF does not = infantry trained

umm wrong. Air Force Security Forces go through a lot of infrantry training. I seem to remember 8 weeks at Ft Dix going through that crap after i graduated from the Security Police Academy. Blowing off claymores is pretty damn fun.

As of 2002 the US Army had 487k active duty whereas the USAF had368k. I am assuming that the reserves are larger for the Army. All Army soldiers are trained primarily as infantry (thoguh not to the extent of Marines). From my understanding, the USAF is not that way. What percentage is Security Forces?

 

[Boobs McGee]

Wow I must say there are some very misonformed folks spreading out their "expertise" here of our military. I won't even get into the specifics of what has been said that is just plain wrong, because after 6 pages of replies, there is just too much to talk about.

My vote of course goes Army, because I am a Soldier.

 

[fitzov]

Marine boot camp is the longest--'nuff said.

 

[Kenazo]

I voted Airforce, but I'm second guessing that. The Navy pretty much has its own airforce, and it has ships... hmm...

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: Superself
Army would win easily.

I don't care how many bombs you drop.

Unless you can put troops on the ground, it ain't yours.

exactly my thoughts (though I am not sure if the Army or Marines would win). ok, the USAF and Navy would cause extremely heavy losses, but they do not have a bomb for every soldier. Furthermore, the Army/Marines are trained more for individual combat. One other thing. Depending on how it starts, the Army would have a much greater geographical advantage. The reserve components are spread over the entire country, meaning that the Army would have an immediate response, whereas the USAF would be slowly gearing up.

I'm going to have to disagree with you... there are AFB and AFReserves everywhere.

True, but AF does not = infantry trained

umm wrong. Air Force Security Forces go through a lot of infrantry training. I seem to remember 8 weeks at Ft Dix going through that crap after i graduated from the Security Police Academy. Blowing off claymores is pretty damn fun.

As of 2002 the US Army had 487k active duty whereas the USAF had368k. I am assuming that the reserves are larger for the Army. All Army soldiers are trained primarily as infantry (thoguh not to the extent of Marines). From my understanding, the USAF is not that way. What percentage is Security Forces?

no idea, but it is one of the largest career fields in the air force. rough guess i would say 30K


Edit, incase you missed my earlier post i voted Army.

 

[mrchan]

It depends, who is attacking? Who is defending? Where is the fighting taking place?

 

[archiloco]

the armed forces where made to complement each other......having them fight against one another is going to make each one of them go limp when you get to the part they are not really supposed to do.

 

[GoingUp]

I say marines or army.

You can shoot down planes. Plus you cant hold ground with airplanes and ships.

 

[FoBoT]

hey, Boobs McGee is back

 

[vshah]

according to WP there are five branches of the us military
army, navy, air force, marines, and coast guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_military

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: vshah
according to WP there are five branches of the us military
army, navy, air force, marines, and coast guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_military

Wrong. I don't know if the Wikipedia article goes into it, but during wartime the Coast Guard is under the Navy.


Also to note, the Marines would have a bit of trouble in this scenerio as they would have no corpsmen (borrowed from the Navy).

 

[roguerower]

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS...OOHRAH

I mean seriously, the air force have to find us first, and then we'd attack their bases. They have no ground attack force, they'd die in a heartbeat.

Same goes for the Navy.

The Army would be a little harder, but the average soldier is nowhere near as well trained as the average Marine.

 

[calisoldier83]

you're missing national guard and we are put into hostile situations with training we take care of business

 

[IAteYourMother]

I would say either Army or Navy...

I put navy

 

[IAteYourMother]

btw, how can you even say the AF could win? Cruise missle the air bases and it's toast.

 

[LtPage1]

I'd say Marines, but there's too few of them. The Navy can't really strike inland, but would need to go to port every now and then- and the Air Force would own the Army.

 

[imported_goku]

LOL that would be a hilarious scenario.

News flash:
In an attempt to see which armed force agency is lacking the most funding, the president has forced the military commanders of each divsion to fight each other, who ever wins gets a budget reduction and who ever loses gets a raise in budget. The commanders don't know this and think that who ever wins gets the budget raise while the losing division gets assimilated into the winning divsion. This is highly experiemental and should be a first for the armed forces. When the president was asked for his reasoning for this, his spokes person said, "no comment".

 

[Doboji]

doesnt the navy actually have more planes than the airforce?

-Max

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: roguerower
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS...OOHRAH

I mean seriously, the air force have to find us first, and then we'd attack their bases. They have no ground attack force, they'd die in a heartbeat.

Same goes for the Navy.

The Army would be a little harder, but the average soldier is nowhere near as well trained as the average Marine.

I largely agree with that. I think when it comes down to Army vs Marines it would depend on the exact scenerio. The Army has the advantage of home territory in a guerrilla campaign as there are a very large number of reserves that would have immediate access to lower level weaponry. If it was a head-on fight, I would say Marines would win.

 

[xirtam]

I'm in the air national guard.

If the branches of the military were to have an all out war with each other...

Mexico would win.