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Likely because the Air Corps was split off from the Army and became a separate branch. The Marines are still nominally a part of the Department of the Navy and is not technically separate.
Then why not just keep Air Force in same department as army?
Doctrinally the Army and Air Force are two very different services with two very different missions. Since all fixed wing combat power was removed from the Army in 1947, the Army has focused on tactical missions, and the Air Force on both tactical and strategic missions. Correspondingly, their academic emphasis is more about the missions of each service.
Why do military bases have golf course? They be better utilized for outdoor training like shooting gallery, armoured vehicle maneuvering, or even a bombing range.
Why do military bases have golf course? They be better utilized for outdoor training like shooting gallery, armoured vehicle maneuvering, or even a bombing range.
Why do military bases have golf course? They be better utilized for outdoor training like shooting gallery, armoured vehicle maneuvering, or even a bombing range.
Junior officers kissing senior officers behind. In the 90s when I was stationed in Norfolk it was mainly officers using the golf course while the enlisted played basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, and bowling.
Why do military bases have golf course? They be better utilized for outdoor training like shooting gallery, armoured vehicle maneuvering, or even a bombing range.
The military also has those. But even military personnel enjoy a round of golf when off duty.
Marines are just not large enough nor enough standards of deviation away from the Navy, to make it separate, though it gets talked about.
Marines are just a segment of the Navy, enough to make it a separate branch, but that is where it stops. There is a whole lot of intermingling between the Marines and Navy.
Why do military bases have golf course? They be better utilized for outdoor training like shooting gallery, armoured vehicle maneuvering, or even a bombing range.
They are not going to do these things among where people live, eat, shop, etc, which is where the golf courses are. If they really had to, they would of course use the territory, but I have never heard of a land restraint issue when it comes to needs of the military in regards to a golf course is in the way or could be utilized.
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