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be included. The supply, maintenance, and repair facilities, experimental and development plants belonging to the Air Force should be utilized as much as possible by the Air Service of the Army and the Navy. 

The Army and the Navy should each maintain a school, or schools, for advanced training of their Air Service personnel.

VI. General Considerations.

Under the present organization there is concealed in the Air Services of the Army and the Navy, the elements of an Air Force. The efficacy of an Air Force in accomplishing some of the things formerly done by the Army and by the Navy, and the possibility of its being able to accomplish things possible to neither, is recognized both by the Army and by the Navy, but the primary responsibility of the War Department is for land operation and for the Navy for operations on the seas. They can be expected, therefore, to devote most of their interest and attention in seronautics to the development of aircraft which will make a more efficient army and navy, and this is as it should be, The development of an Air Force by either must, and should be, a secondary consideration.

It is impossible from an economic standpoint for the Army and the Navy to develop each an Air Force as large as each may desire. Neither can have as large an Air Force as it could use efficiently. In war each could use, and would require, an Air Force much larger than it could ever hope to have. The result will be that the Air Forces of the Army and the Navy will be consolidated in war and be used when and where it will prove to be most effective. I believe it to be only common sense that they be combined in peacetime and that the resulting Air Force should be trained to operate independently, in cooperation with the Army and with the Navy or in a combined