“A medical service for the Air Forces, if it is to meet its primary objective of preparing for war, must become identified with the parent organization. Its personnel must have special training and special type units and, in many instances, special equipment. Its thinking must be geared to that of the Air Forces, not only in relation to speed but in relation to tactics and strategy. An adequate Air Force medical service must have flexibility, mobility, and its organizations and equipment must be fitted into airplanes. The state of training and the level of experience of the Air Force and of its auxiliary services on M-day may represent the decisive factor in a future war.”
- Maj. Gen. Malcolm C. Grow, in a testimony given to the Senate Committee on Armed Services in 1947