BFLR
IMHO the Air Fore Brass is terrified of the A-10 because they are scared that the CAS mission will become the AF’s primary mission.
When, not if, that happens then the justifications used for the last 70 odd years as to why the AF must be a separate service disappears and the AF will be swallowed up by the Army. When that happens the money, positions, and all of the other trappings of power so beloved by the brass disappears too. Along with the extremely lucrative post service employment opportunities.
The Air Force Brass have lost sight of their mission to the Republic and have made the Republic service their goals instead.
My bottom line is an American on the ground in trouble is much more important that a REMF staff battle to keep “his” money, power, parking spot, and executive desk. Vietnam cost us over 36,000 grunts; how many REMFs died at their desks?