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definitely is an education and general intellect difference betwixt most of the AF and Army pilots.   However, ask an AF pilot to go along on a mission in an Army helicopter, as an educational orientation, and see what happens.

In RVN we settled a bar dispute by interchanging that way.  All four AF pilots bailed as soon as possible after the first combat sector.  The Army pilots were lined up for A-37 mission orientation which had to be turned off by the AF CO.

Being an Army pilot is direct direct direct support for grunts, not just "support".

It all has its place.  

I look at Army pilots as flying infantry, AF pilots, they're pilots, but that's the end of it.