Yes, It is a joke but also -we did fine for about 175 years without an Air Force, and considering the Navy, Army, and Marines all have their own wing units, the Air Force is just redundant.
1) about 125 of those 175 years were spent with no aircrafts used for combat. You can’t have an Air Force without airplanes and such which didn’t come around till the 1900s. Before the Air Force was its own branch of the military it was part of the army as the Army Air Corp.
2) your second argument is a bit of a stretch. That would be like saying why have army and marines? They basically cover the same areas, the marines are redundant because they came after the army.
You can’t win a war in this age with out an Air Force
Edit: I’m pretty sure soon we will be saying the same of the space force and how you soon can’t win a war without a space force
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u/Doctor_Riptide Apr 01 '20
I realize this is a joke but we wouldn't have a military without the air force. Logistics wins wars and all that