Rhino
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Not exactly. They just renamed the Army Air Force into the US Air Force, part of the National Security Act of 1947. Most of the personnel/assets were already there, so there wasn't much recruitment of new people. Mainly the only recruitment necessary was in logistics and base infrastructure. They had all that, but there were some areas where the Air Force had to 'expand' by creating their own independent organizations in that reagrd to split off from the Army...I remember my father telling me that the USAF was formed right after WW2 and to do it they recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines to form a new hybrid armed force...