I have a few years working on the Hogs. Never got to see them in action but they did a SAR demo at Osan that felt like the real thing. The 16s did top cover and the 10s did the dirty work down low. The 16s had a good loiter time but no weps only flares.
Not too many people know that a lot of the design for the A-10 was based on the experience of Hans-Ulrich Rudel, an amazing Stuka pilot of WWII.
“Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, 70 landing craft, nine aircraft, four armored trains, several bridges, a destroyer, two cruisers, and the Soviet battleship Marat.”
N.B.: He died of old age, a testament to his skill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel