ORIGINAL: 50%plane
You're missing the point Franklin_m. The AMA IS " In support of those serving to protect our freedom." They do a lot!! Maybe not what you, Waross, Abel, and Cyclops want to see, but they do! The AMA protects my Freedom to fly my models. They played a huge part in securing the 72MHz band and are working hard as 2.4 GHz takes center stage. The list is very long.
Securing the 72 MHz band happened many years ago. Hoss can relate the scope of the "huge part" AMA played better than I. The "working hard" re 2.4 GHz appears to be on the part of the TD alone, and amounts to an endorsement of what was done by vendors to the hobby completely apart from AMA promotion or involvement of any kind. If this is "The AMA in support of those serving to protect our freedom," it is at best incidental that active military might benefit, and no more substantive than my placing a "Support Our Troops" sticker on the rear bumper of my pickup truck.
Abel