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Americans respect all military branches but the Air Force takes the lead as most important, poll finds

Military Times: The military remains broadly popular with the American public, a recent Gallup poll found, and the Air Force is viewed most highly of all branches.

Gallup conducted a telephone poll April 24 through May 2 on American's attitudes about the military and found people had similar levels of confidence in each service.

Overall, Americans like all five branches of the military. However, the Air Force is the most important branch among 27 percent of Americans, while 21 percent say the Army is most important, according to the Gallup poll. The Air Force was also found to be the most important in both 2001 and 2002, four months before 9/11 and shortly after the war in Afghanistan began.

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