Whatever. You can CYA but it is not ‘retired”.
The platform is in the process of retirement. . .drawdown. . .dozens of them are now in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan.
Use Google maps (Davis-Monthan). Start at SE of corner of S Kolb Blvd and E Irvington Rd. .browse South and East, North of the dirt road and South, too. . .you will see countless A-10s retired (mothballed) and dozens torn down to pieces-parts.
The jet was projected to be fully retired by 2030, then it was 2025. . .now, who knows.
Retiring a jet doesn’t mean on-line one day and gone the next. It is a long draw-down process as jets are taken off-line and then (supposedly) replaced by other platforms.
The A-10 is retiring now, bottom line, reducing its numbers each year.