I have one other A10 story: Not too long after Desert Storm I was talking with a retired A-10 pilot. The comment I remember is: “Chad, it was like making war on your dog”. Without an form of air defense, the Iraqi armor was just so many practice targets. He said that a lot of the vehicles they shot up were unmanned. The crews had simply fled into the desert.
That was a waste of resources. We easily could have landed counterintel troops to take over those Iraqi tanks. Imagine what fun we could have with those things in our back pocket.