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To: alloysteel
My Dad flew A-10s in Vietnam in the sixties. It's a good thing they are so deadly because flying that close to the ground makes them targets.
32 posted on 04/28/2015 8:57:49 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
My Dad flew A-10s in Vietnam in the sixties.

Really?

34 posted on 04/28/2015 9:04:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: boatbums
"My Dad flew A-10s in Vietnam in the sixties."

The first production A-10s didn't fly until 1975, so I don't think he was flying an A-10.

39 posted on 04/28/2015 9:10:17 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: boatbums

If your dad was flying an A-10 in Vietnam, it must have been undercover, DEEP undercover! The first unit received the A-10 in 1976, AFTER Saigon capitulated on April 30, 1975. I believe the USAF used the A-1 Skyraider during Vietnam for CAS.


48 posted on 04/28/2015 9:22:36 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: boatbums

” A-10s in Vietnam in the sixties”

Sorry but that is technically incorrect. The A-10s weren’t available until the mid-70s.


90 posted on 04/29/2015 2:11:19 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: boatbums

No he didn’t.


91 posted on 04/29/2015 3:33:36 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: boatbums
My Dad flew A-10s in Vietnam in the sixties.

Perhaps OV-10s? A whole 'nother animal.

133 posted on 04/29/2015 4:16:10 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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