The Black Sheep are already there. The 214 have been there a couple of years now. And guess what? They are also flying Warthogs too, these days.
As a young enlistee in the Army back in the mid-80’s, I loved to see the A-10 “hedge-hopping” over the field. Glad it’s still serving us well!
This thread is useless without photographs...
The Air Force Museum in Dayton is spectacular, but, for awhile, I was fortunate to be able to travel the country with out any destination nor timetable.
The military museums on a map often made a worthwhile destination, regardless of distance (or State).
I recall walking out of a hanger onto an abandoned field. Inside the hanger, it was air conditioned, but wasn’t so when it was crewed.
The field was cement for almost as far as I could see. (yeah, I know, cliche, but true, even to the grass growing high between the expansion cracks which seemed to be a 1/4 mile apart squared)
And it was HOT, not just from the heat rising from the field, the wind was too, perhaps even hotter, I thought.
A sign inside the hanger, just before exiting, read: Consider those that worked here.
Quiet and humbling.
God Bless our Troops and Thank You.
Past and Present.
pardon my thread drift
“We seek to avoid civilian casualties in all our operations - period,”
Mistake #1
There’s no such thing in a war zone.