As someone who knows nothing about the military, how hard would it be to have the carriers themselves operated by the navy, and have the aircraft operated by the airforce? The airforce pilots would obviously report to the ship's captain, but the training, maintenance, and everything else about the aircraft could be done by the airforce itself.
Well the first thing I can think of is that the crew would be split (care little about the other side), and would generally be less effective at executing orders because of constant competing/infighting :)
