The United States Army Air Forces had become a separate military service from the Army on September 18, 1947. When B-36Bs started entering the SAC inventory in the fail of 1948, the newly independent U.S. Air Force had 59 groups. The USAF wanted to expand to 70 groups, but was thwarted by Fiscal Year 1949 budget restraints. President Harry S.Truman was determined to hold the FY 49 defense budget to $11 billion.The three military services squabbled with each other over who was to receive the lion's share of the money. The Air Force wanted more B-36s, but the Navy wanted a new supercarrier, the first of four, that would give them a strategic bombing capability. The Air Force's position was that strategic bombing should remain an Air Force responsibility, and that a Navy strategic bombing capability was redundant.
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