Congress has cut the funding of the Air Force to the point where they can deploy aircraft maintenance crews for the A-10 squadrons or a comparable number of F-16 squadrons. The F-16 squadrons can fight for air superiority against Russian, Chinese, and comparable enemy air superiority fighters and perform a less capable CAS mission; whereas the A-10 is superior at performing the CAS mission but cannot fulfill the same air superiority role as the F-16. Do you really want to cut the number of air superiority squadrons below their already inadequate numbers? Wouldn’t it be better to fund enough combat air support squadrons to maintain deployments of the A-10 and F-16 squadrons at the same time?
