General Patton -> Army Air Corp

I read some place that European Officers [mostly Calvary types] Rapidly, enthusiastically embraced the Airplane, Sometime using their own money Buying planes [and donating* them to the Military] to Compete in Airshows and Races.

The US, OTOH while buying some planes for evaluation and testing, never developed the enthusiasm For this New Toy, of the Europeans.
So WI
Calvary Officer Lieutenant Patton == Switching over to the New Army Air Corp. pre WW1

* This allowed them to Fly them while On Duty.
 
I can't see GP giving up the cavalry for the Signal Corps (the initial home of Army aviation) before WW1. However, I can see him transferring to the USAAC after the war, say in the late 20s or early 30s. He gets to know Lindberg and the other fliers of the day and decides to give up his polo ponies and go flying. GP was from a moderately wealthy family and could afford the planes.
 
Reading WEB Griffins Brotherhood of war, which is fiction, the army aviation where a place where the misfits ended up. Just a bunch of glorified jeep drivers.
 
Reading WEB Griffins Brotherhood of war, which is fiction, the army aviation where a place where the misfits ended up. Just a bunch of glorified jeep drivers.

Griffin was talking about army aviation after the air corps grew up and became the USAF.

This PoD's talking about Patton joining the USAAC before the war, and way before Griffin's Korean-era helicopters and artillery spotters.
 
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