The A-10 warthog

[Aloha_Shooter]

Too bad the congress critters baring of retirement of the A-10 has nothing to do with protecting troops as much as it has to do with keeping money flowing in home districts.

Mmmm ... where are you getting this from? It's not like the A-10 is being produced anymore.

[clublights]

Mmmm ... where are you getting this from? It's not like the A-10 is being produced anymore.

A-10 bases are not F-35 bases .... so if the airmen move to F-35 bases for training there will not be personnel and the money they spend at the former A-10 bases .

[Aloha_Shooter]

A-10 bases are not F-35 bases .... so if the airmen move to F-35 bases for training there will not be personnel and the money they spend at the former A-10 bases .

That's so thin I could use it for a window. When we roll out new aircraft to replace existing aircraft with the same mission, the new aircraft go to existing units while the personnel are upgraded to the new platforms.

I understand the desire to be skeptical of Congress but sometimes they really are interested in things like preserving capabilities that work.

[clublights]

That's so thin I could use it for a window. When we roll out new aircraft to replace existing aircraft with the same mission, the new aircraft go to existing units while the personnel are upgraded to the new platforms.

I understand the desire to be skeptical of Congress but sometimes they really are interested in things like preserving capabilities that work.

Except it is not thin in the slightest ..


Current A-10 Bases:
Davis Monthan
Moody
splattering of ANG's

First 3 F-35 bases :

Hill
Eglin
Burlington .
Davis Monthan


If you don't think politics plays into that you don't remember the BRAC of the 90's that had nothing to do with saving the pentagon money and everything to do with keeping bases open in home districts.