The Army needs to reconsider and take it.
The Army can barely pay for it's reduced active force of 420K.
“The Army needs to reconsider and take it.”
The U.S. Army is being forced to make its own draconian budget cuts to vital programmes as well. besides being operationally inappropriate for a long list of reasons, the Army simply could not fund such a programme without devastating the combat ground units the A-10 is supposed to support.