Siimple answer, transfer all A-10's to the USMC. Most AF Pilots want
to be fighter drivers. Marines are always ground fighters, so I am
sure the marine Pilots will love them.
On 15 Nov 2018 20:27:17 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>more at
>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24936/whats-to-come-of-the-a-10-now-that-it-has-lost-some-of-its-loudest-defenders-in-congress
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>beloved Senator John McCain, means the A-10 Warthog has lost its most vocal
>defenders in Congress this year. This has prompted many to question whether this
>will prompt the U.S. Air Force to redouble its efforts to retire the venerable
>ground attack aircraft for good. The impact may actually be less pronounced than
>the planes defenders might fear, but it also might still not be enough to save
>
>McSally, herself a retired Air Force colonel, former A-10 pilot, and member of
>the halls of Congress after McCain passed away from cancer in August 2018. She
>had declined to seek re-election as a Representative for Arizona in 2018 in
>decision to retire from public office. New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte,
>another Republican and supporter of retaining the A-10, had lost her re-election
>bid in 2016. There is, of course, a distinct possibility that Arizona Governor
>Doug Ducey will now appoint McSally to take McCain's seat, propelling her into
>the Senate, anyway.
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>which has put them in the majority and given them control of the committees,
>including the House Armed Services Committee, have raised concerns about whether
>Republican advocacy may be enough. Many Democrats, including Adam Smith, a
>Representative for Washington State and incoming Chairman of the Armed Services
>Committee, have announced their desire to trim the defense budget in the future.
>the face of surging federal deficits.
>
>But preserving the A-10, a relatively low-cost platform that has repeatedly
>proven its worth in combat, might not necessarily be a hard sell to cost-focused
>be quick to question the wisdom of retiring any Warthogs when the Air Force is
>complaining that it needs more planes and is pushing to increase its overall
>force size from 312 to 386 operational squadrons.
>
>The bigger problem on the horizon for Congress is that they've been in an
>increasingly impossible position with regards to the A-10 for months now.
>Legislators made sure to include sufficient funding for the wing upgrade kits
>for its oldest Warthogs and the Air Force is publicly supportive of that
>project. But, in reality, the service seems to be slow-rolling the process and
>doesn't expect to begin taking delivery of bulk of those replacement spans for
>another four years.
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>Of course, none of this is to say that the battle between Congress and the Air
>Force is over. Far from it, especially if McSallys still becomes a Senator in
>the end. At the same time, though, it appears to be an increasingly losing
>proposition for legislators.
>
>There may come a time, and soon, when it would become more useful to spend this
>time and energy in ensuring the Air Force actually moves ahead with its light
>attack aircraft program, which also seems to be in danger of dying on the vine,
>and otherwise pushing the service to develop new ground attack capabilities and
>preserve the knowledge base the A-10 community has cultivated over the decades.
>
>the vital ground attack capability and capacity the Warthogs provide will go on
>the offensive again. But considering that the USAF has made just keeping the
>aircraft in the inventory a constant and outright nagging battle, it's possible
>that they will decide to focus their political capital elsewhere.
>
>
>more at
>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24936/whats-to-come-of-the-a-10-now-that-it-has-lost-some-of-its-loudest-defenders-in-congress
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