And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Who doesn't love an A-10?! I grew up around a (National Guard) airport that had squads of them...always a thrill to watch them take off. It seemed like they only needed ten feet of runway, then they were in the air.
Hope it wasn't the MDANG base at Middle River (see "Clipped Wings"): https://www.wbal.com/clipped-wings-md-could-be-the-only-state-without-a-military-flying-mission/
True but the USAF has given up on the CAS mission. Troops in contact? Who cares? There might be a MIG to shoot down somewhere else - let the grunts call for a helicopter or something. If the A-10 isn't survivable, then replace it with something that is but it has to be a dedicated CAS platform, not something sold as "Also can drop bombs".
The A-10 is my favorite AF aircraft. Just before the kick off of OIF I was the NCO in charge of the network operations center in Al Jabber Kuwait. I cut a deal putting telephones and internet in the pilots quarters for a weekly bottle of Jim Beam and Jameson. The pilots were rich in booze. I would also supply the pilots with Cuban cigars that I would buy downtown. The pilots had problems getting off base. My POC was a captain Campbell with the call sign of Soup. I ran into him when he was a major and I had retired but was a contractor in Afghanistan. He was still a wheeler-dealer.
There has never been a finer Warcraft built. It’s nearly indestructible & yet can deploy such much destruction it boggles the mind. It’s a perfect war machine.
It truly amazes me that not one of our military branches wanted the A-10. And even after it has proven its worth over and over the military brass are doing everything they can to get rid of it.
Warthogs in space!!!!(get the reference??)
ReplyDeleteFrom the Muppets’ “Pigs in Space”, right?
DeleteWho doesn't love an A-10?! I grew up around a (National Guard) airport that had squads of them...always a thrill to watch them take off. It seemed like they only needed ten feet of runway, then they were in the air.
ReplyDelete👍👍👍
DeleteHope it wasn't the MDANG base at Middle River (see "Clipped Wings"):
Deletehttps://www.wbal.com/clipped-wings-md-could-be-the-only-state-without-a-military-flying-mission/
* And if only it was just this one case
One of the all time great designs just like the B52, difficult to outdo the near perfection of these craft.
ReplyDeleteFlight Of The Bumblebees comes to mind. They being dragged across the Atlantic?
ReplyDeleteWonder when taken, I was at RAF Bentwaters 78 - 80 and our aircraft came over in mass like this. Seems early paint scheme as well.
ReplyDeletesend to yemen with a full combat load and level LEVEL the entire country.
ReplyDeleteOne of the finest Close Air Support aircraft ever to be built.
ReplyDeleteNo it is simply THE best close air support aircraft ever designed by any country ever. Change my mind.
DeleteTrue but the USAF has given up on the CAS mission. Troops in contact? Who cares? There might be a MIG to shoot down somewhere else - let the grunts call for a helicopter or something. If the A-10 isn't survivable, then replace it with something that is but it has to be a dedicated CAS platform, not something sold as "Also can drop bombs".
DeletePhoto taken from KC-10 Refueler dude's office window maybe?
ReplyDeleteBRRRRRT
ReplyDeleteShould take every A-10 in Davis-Monthan out of mothballs and ship them to Ukraine along with a boat load of ammo.
ReplyDeleteUkrainians prefer cash - as do our Washington insider geniuses.
DeleteYes they do. Cash or arms that can be sold somewhere else.
DeleteDon't waste another cent on that regional conflict that we have no national interest in (other than starting it).
DeleteThe A-10 is my favorite AF aircraft. Just before the kick off of OIF I was the NCO in charge of the network operations center in Al Jabber Kuwait. I cut a deal putting telephones and internet in the pilots quarters for a weekly bottle of Jim Beam and Jameson. The pilots were rich in booze. I would also supply the pilots with Cuban cigars that I would buy downtown. The pilots had problems getting off base. My POC was a captain Campbell with the call sign of Soup. I ran into him when he was a major and I had retired but was a contractor in Afghanistan. He was still a wheeler-dealer.
ReplyDeleteThere has never been a finer Warcraft built. It’s nearly indestructible & yet can deploy such much destruction it boggles the mind. It’s a perfect war machine.
ReplyDeleteIt truly amazes me that not one of our military branches wanted the A-10. And even after it has proven its worth over and over the military brass are doing everything they can to get rid of it.
DeleteFlyovers at Arrowhead sometimes get the A10s. Crowd favorites!!!
ReplyDelete...a bad day to be in a tank!...or anywhere on the ground, if you're the enemy for that matter...BRRRRRRT! Ugly and beautiful at the same time!
ReplyDeleteYears ago they trained in Myrtle Beach. What a sight standing on a golf course and see 2 scream by overhead. Flying LOW!
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