The Air Force indeed hates it. What they love is electronics, stealth, and above all -procurement-. They have a very poor record for providing quality ground support and have become big believers that they ARE the main effort. Supporting the Army is a distraction from what they believe war is.
That is simply Bovine Scatology.
Brave Air Force pilots have been putting themselves on the line to provide CAS in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Desert Storm, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Not only have many of them been killed or wounded in the endeavor, but many have take prisoner, and suffered torture and years of deprivation.
It seems as if Free Republic has its share of people who repeat myths over and over again, believing that in the process of repetition they become reality.
The Air Force as a department has been seriously compromised by Political Correctness and an Anal Mentality.
The A-10 is a flying tank and it was designed specifically to take out enemy ground forces. Where I come from, ISIS, with its tanks and pickup trucks with heavy cannons/MGs, is the perfect target for the A-10.
Now we have this stupid broad as Secy AF and she’s going to do Obie’s bidding like a good little asskisser. I’m not sexist, I just look at the women Obama has put into high places and I can’t find a successful one in the bunch.
By the way, women flew the A-10 in Iraq and at least one pilot was killed when the plane hit high tension wires. Let the women pilots of the A-10 talk about the qualities of the plane for desert warfare, not some ass-sitting political appointee.