Air Force Wants to Move Fast on Boat Plane for Special Operators

[haele]

16. 20 years in the Navy, 20 years supporting.

This is not a new idea, heck, it's been explored in comic books and military adventure fiction.
The article claims the Air Force wants a way to deploy their combat and support units (supposedly for special operations?) within 24 hours to anywhere in the South China Sea.
Not counting the various Air Force and Navy bases in Japan, Guam, Korea, and probably other bases in the area, there are a number of US territories in the region where there were military flight lines that can be refurbished or upgraded to provide pre-staging or jump points from the US for a C-130 to get to a drop-point and parachute their Spec-Ops units with enough supplies/support in inflatables to get them through the 24/48 hours it would take for supply ships to re-enforce them.
Navy can still provide carrier based air support during that period, if their own air support is too far away. Or their own drones.

It just seems too much like them trying to pull one over on the Navy, instead of being Joint Operational partnership.
Hey, my spouse was both an Air Force brat and enlisted Air Force for a few years. And he agrees with me.

Haele