Trashing the A-10 just to save some money for the F-35 program is just stupid. But this is the same United States Air Force that trashed the EF-111A after it spent billions turning them into a first rate escort jammer, just to save some money to put towards the F-22 project, that also got curtailed anyway.
Well, at least the F-22 got to join in last night for the first time in battle.