The A10 Warthog is to the Mil-Industrial complex (and its revolving door generals and politicians) what aspirin is to big pharma. They despise effective solutions where they don’t profit with billions of our dollars.
Read the thread before you make yourself look petty and foolish bashing the reputations of people you don’t know and have made no effort to understand. Clue: the Air Force Chief of Staff who is compelled by Congress and the Obama Administration to retire the A-10 to avoid the retirement of the other aircraft who are also mission critical is a former A-10 pilot with 1,000 hours logged in the A-10. His decision to retire the A-10 is compelled by Congress who has ordered the Air Force to cut its budget by one trillion dollars in the next ten years. If he does not retire the A-10, he will have to retire something else, like the entire B-1 strategic bomber force, one-third of the F-16 fighter force, much of the F-15 force, or a number of other alternatives discussed earlier in this thread. If you don’t like the consequences of the cuts to the Air Force, Army, and Navy, you can take your complaints to Washington D.C. and bitch all day long about resuming funding for all of the air squadrons of the Air Force and not just the A-10 squadrons.