You’re in denial. I watched this play out during my active duty career as an officer and have followed it afterwards for over 20 years. Once you reach the general officer ranks you are a political animal and it doesn’t matter what your background is, you will throw your grandmother under the bus for the next promotion or to maintain your current position. Sad fact is, support of ground troops has never been at the top or even midway up the list of priority mission for AF fliers. The fighter jocks took over chicken coop when they acquired SAC former assets and they will always make fast fighters the primary mission and will support the ground support missions if they can do it using the sleek, fast and sexy fighter.
The general is a moron because he thought he could bully his subordinates into not talking and/or telling the truth if called to testify before congress. That is a major violation and by rights he should be cashiered if not sent to confinement.
“You’re in denial. I watched this play out during my active duty career as an officer and have followed it afterwards for over 20 years.”
So, what you are trying to say is that today’s Air Force is different from what it was before with TAC, SAC, & ADC with respect to CAS, perhaps before the reorganization about 1993?