Timeline for Why was Congress able to create an Air Force without a constitutional amendment?
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| Jun 3 at 4:08 | answer | added | Rewan Demontay | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 1, 2022 at 5:45 | answer | added | Monorprise | timeline score: -5 | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 16:18 | answer | added | Helge Hafting | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:20 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 16, 2020 at 21:30 | comment | added | crobar | If they'd called it the "Air Army" would that help? | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 21:41 | comment | added | user541686 | Is it too much of a stretch to read "armies" as synonymous with "armed forces"? Which is effectively synonymous with the military? To me it seems like the obvious reading. | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 14:16 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Not everything requires a Constitutional amendment. | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 13:27 | comment | added | Andy | @jamesqf The Marines are part of the US Navy. | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 8:56 | comment | added | reirab | @jamesqf Technically speaking, the Marine Corps is part of the Department of the Navy. At any rate, it's fair to describe the Marine Corps as "land and naval forces." | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 6:06 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Thunderforge: I know little about Trump's "space force" proposal, but I think the US is signatory to various treaties (e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty ) that would make such a force problematic. So Congress would presumably have to vote to withdraw from such treaties... | |
| Jun 21, 2018 at 4:53 | vote | accept | Thunderforge | ||
| Jun 20, 2018 at 21:40 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPolitics/status/1009551535192276993 | ||
| Jun 20, 2018 at 20:05 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @Thunderforge Unlike the navy, though, an air force needs a ground or sea base. They operate in the air, but they're based on either land or sea. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 19:10 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @notstoreboughtdirt Because it's not on the ground, it's in the air? The same way that the naval forces are separate from the "land forces" despite occasional overlap through bombarding land targets, transporting land troops, etc. Regardless, the existing answer seems to address the issue of what it counts as. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @jamesqf That's another good example for the sort of question I'm asking. Also relevant is President Trump's proposed "Space Force", which I understand requires congressional approval to exist. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | jamesqf | Also note that (AFAIK) the Constitution does not explicitly mention the Marine Corps. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:41 | answer | added | T.E.D. | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:39 | comment | added | user9389 | and how is the UAF not a ground force? | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @notstoreboughtdirt I assumed that "Army" meant "land forces", as referred to in the last sentence of the quote. | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | user9389 | Perhaps I'm outing myself as not much of a military person, but is there a some technical difference or is this just about the word "Airforce" not being "Army"? | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 15:50 | history | edited | HDE 226868 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 14:21 | answer | added | HDE 226868 | timeline score: 46 | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 13:35 | history | asked | Thunderforge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |