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Two groups of Air Force personnel that never have to buy their drinks in any Army club: A-10 pilots, and Spectre crews!
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Tweeted on March 17, 2023
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Absolutely wonderful pieces of military equipment for ground force cover.
And their crews deserve to drink for free. They saved a lot of grunt-asses.
Around or against an air born enemy they are pretty much flaming wreckage though.
Thus, the reason the military has been trying to get rid of the A-10.
World war III to cover the banking reset is going to be, “near-peer.” And just like surface ships in the navy, they’re just targets.
So off to Davis-Moffett with them. Wonderful as they are.
And in an A-10 bar, our trigger pullers also don’t need to buy!
But the Air Force finally has said the quiet part out loud. They intend to divest the Close Air Support and Combat Search and Rescue missions. The ground guys will get no more support from the Air Force if we lose the fight to save the A-10
Who picks up that role? Army helicopters?
The trouble with getting rid of the A-10 is: what would you replace it with? Also, given that your typical Warthog driver likes to fly below 200 feet, the “flaming wreckage” thing isn’t quite so obvious. It’s hard to shoot down something that flies to close to the ground. Not to mention that damaging an A-10 is likely just to annoy the pilot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell_(pilot) An A-10 can fly — and can be landed if the pilot is good, as KC is — even if it has only one engine and no hydraulics at all. Big holes in the wing, including the loss of a wing spar, aren’t an issue either.
The Department of Defense made a big mistake when it declared that the Army could not manage, acquire or control its own fixed wing ground support aircraft.
Imagine if this rule applied to the Navy and its aircraft!
The DoD would still be trying to make one airplane work for everyone.
They could fix that in the usual .mil/gov way: declare that the A-10s fly so low and so slow, so they count as fast helicopters.
Hey! Don’t pick on DOD Brass. They have press conferences and Congressional b____jobs to take care of. It is hard to get off your knees with all the “awards” that they have been given.
Hey,
don’t be too hard on them. PowerPoints are time consuming to make