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Imagine this scenario.
The US Army needs to update its light transport aircraft. Its been flying the Sherpa for almost as long as the USMC has been operating the AAV...in others words they're old as dirt.
So what does the Army do? They talk to their "brother" service and the USAF agrees that the Army actually does need these aircraft, the Army promises not to step on USAF toes and Jointness is once again king.
But before the ink dries the USAF conducts combat operations on the most fierce battlefield known to man (if you're a paper pusher) and the war commences on the plains of the Pentagon.
So what happens?
The USAF gets the C-27J's that the US Army desperately needed, they promptly mothball them, then the US Coast Guard, SOCOM and Homeland Security and the Forestry Service all puts dibs on them.
The US Army Chief of Staff is saying "WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED" and before you know it the deal is struck.
The Coast Guard gets the C-27J's and gives the USAF old C-130's, the USAF will refurbish and modify the C-130's for fire fighting duty for the Forestry Service and the Army is left looking slack eyed and silly.
