[Gunrunner2]

>>The Marines didn't want the A-10 when they were supposed to get some of them in 1991<<

I am going to have to ask you to provide proof that they ever were offered the A-10. Really.

[A.A. Cunningham]

You'll have to search through the Congressional Record to find the directive from the Armed Services Committee and my copy of Proceedings that dealt with this is archived in storage but the following deals with the issue, albeit in a rudimentary manner. You are aware that the Air Force wanted to begin getting rid of the A-10 prior to Desert Storm aren't you?

'In 1990, Congress decreed that some USAF A-10A's and OV-10 Broncos be turned over to the Army and Marine Corps beginning in 1991.

However, all of these plans came to naught on November 26th, 1990, when the USAF was ordered to retain two wings of A-10 aircraft for the CAS mission. No order for the A-16 was ever placed.'