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The Air Force is Quietly Killing Off the A-10—Over Congress’ Protests
War is Boring ^
| November 15, 2013
| Dave Majumdar
Posted on 11/15/2013 5:31:04 AM PST by C19fan
A bipartisan group of senators and congressmen is fighting back against the U.S. Air Force’s move to prematurely retire all 350 of its A-10 Warthog attack planes between 2015 and 2018.
But the flying branch is already strangling the A-10 force with budget cuts, upgrade cancellations and a reduced contingent of new pilots.
The battle is intensifying in Washington, D.C. over the legendary warplane, which was originally meant to destroy Soviet tanks and has flown thousands of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, saving scores of American lives with its overwhelming firepower.
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 113th; a10; aerospace; bhodod; cas; thunderbolt; usaf; warthog
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To: C19fan
Having fast movers come by and drop in a big punch is pretty cool.
But having an A10 or C130 hanging around all day long? SOOO much better. When you’re on the ground there’s nothing better than CAS that’s actually able to do something as soon as you need it
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
That Sir, is an idea that I can climb on and shout from the roof top.
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posted on
11/15/2013 8:37:14 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Name the illness that you have and Google it with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: Syntyr
Wasn’t a woman flying that plane when it was hit and she brought it home?
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posted on
11/15/2013 8:39:36 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Name the illness that you have and Google it with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: JRandomFreeper
The Army isn't allowed to own fixed wing aircraft above a certain weight. This puts the Doggies in a real bind because one thing the Air Farce cares nothing about is close air support. For that you need Marine Air. Transfer to Marine Air might be the ideal solution, if possible.
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posted on
11/15/2013 9:11:45 AM PST
by
quadrant
(1o)
To: quadrant
Any of those rules can be changed. CAS should be organic to the user.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
One correction, the fighter mafia are/were advocates for the A-10. It appears they lost the argument over high vs low tech aircraft. It looks like we need more John Boyds in USAF and government in general to get back on track to sanity.
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posted on
11/15/2013 10:24:21 AM PST
by
stump56
(Freedom isn't free.)
To: taxcontrol
How would that help the Army?
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posted on
11/15/2013 10:25:09 AM PST
by
ansel12
( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
To: Flag_This
Your;
"Hence the Army's reliance on helicopters because the Air Force refuses to develop close-in air support aircraft." On target!
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posted on
11/15/2013 11:17:31 AM PST
by
DakotaGator
(Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
To: ansel12
Direct control over close air support
To: C19fan
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posted on
11/15/2013 11:49:34 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: taxcontrol
Adding aircraft to Marine/Navy aviation, doesn’t help the Army.
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posted on
11/15/2013 11:53:45 AM PST
by
ansel12
( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
To: ansel12
But adding it to the Army like I recommended would help the Army.
To: taxcontrol; Resolute Conservative
I’m sorry, I was responding to post 20, and to a lesser degree post 23, I don’t know how I got you confused with post 20.
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posted on
11/15/2013 12:09:50 PM PST
by
ansel12
( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
To: JRandomFreeper
“Give them to the Army. They should own them anyway.
/johnny “
My understanding was that that was the response a previous time the AF tried this...along with all those pilot and support slots.
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posted on
11/15/2013 1:54:58 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The main mission for the AF is ground support and strategic bombing. They need the jets to protect their craft doing ground support.
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posted on
11/15/2013 2:00:52 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: JRandomFreeper
I have no problem with that, but the Air Farce would scream bloody murder.
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posted on
11/15/2013 10:00:50 PM PST
by
quadrant
(1o)
To: C19fan
U.S. Air Force’s move to prematurely retire all 350 of its A-10 Warthog attack planes between 2015 and 2018. Some short sighted officers on the war planning staff.
But then, they've been trying to get rid of the 'Hog since it came out.
If this happens, let the Marines and Army have them.
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posted on
11/16/2013 3:49:55 AM PST
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Uh-oh. Of course, since Zero plans to cripple the US military such that the country is left defenseless, this makes perfect sense. Thanks C19fan.
Caveat sidebar from 2003:
The Hog That Saves the Grunts ...... A-10 Warthogs to be retired.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/918583/posts
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posted on
11/20/2013 5:40:42 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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posted on
11/20/2013 5:41:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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