“Well, I really only know what the Air Force and Army people tell me first hand. Are you telling me the Air Force is keen to keep the A10? I’ll believe that Air Force pilots who fly it are, but not the Air Force Officers who run the Air Force.”
How CAN THEY??? What do you expect them to do? Do you expect them to say we don’t like our budgets, so we’re going to overthrow and retire Obama and Congress with a military dictatorship right here and right now to dictate a new budget just to keep every one of our present air squadrons in operations? The Air Force Chief of Staff is a former A-10 pilot with 1,000 hours in the A-10 and loves the A-10. nonetheless, he has been ordered to make a choice which is going to result in reducing the Air Force budgets by one trillion dollars in the next ten years. Now how do you expect him to comply with his orders from the White house and Congress without retiring the A-10 and without retiring some other very badly needed air squadrons after the retirement of the A-10 squadrons? Why would you choose to abuse these Air Force officers for doing what their orders from the civilians are compelling them to do against their own better judgment?