Its a slightly obscure fact that in WWII, the
U.S. Army operated a few ships, mostly for cargo and transport purposes. The U.S. Air Force
still does, for equipment retrieval.
Suppose that it was proposed, when the bill that created the Air Force was being written, that the Navy's aircraft carriers be transferred to the new service. I'm not sure what would have to be changed for that idea to have a chance in hell of passing Congress, but if it did, or even just looked like it would, I could see the Revolt of the Admirals becoming pretty nasty.
OTOH, if the Revolt were bad enough without that (like, if Atreus's scenario happened, and was significantly worse than Invergordon), I could see the transfer of the aircraft carriers happening to punish the Navy.
Either way, if the officers and crews were transferred with their ships, I could see the new USAF using something like RAF officer ranks.