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| Congressional Committee Just Voted to Kill the A-10--And Endanger Troops' Lives |
| 2014-06-14 |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #11 Oh hell yes the Army and Marines woudl take these! Send the to Ft Rucker, NOW |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-06-14 23:59 |
| #10 The 80's called. It asked if you would like your combat aircraft back. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-06-14 20:09 |
| #9 Move the land based and sub based missiles to a new Strategic Command along with Space Command, revert the rest of the Dept to the Army Air Corps. Otherwise, slice the A-10s, the personnel, the budget and facilities to the Army. Cancel the next generation attack helicopter. No need to do fundamentally duplicate missions. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-14 11:55 |
| #8 The Army Aviation branch would gladly take the existing aircraft and I suspect even the Marines might want them. CAS is a key component of the modern battlespace and this again proves why fighter pilots make poor senior commanders as a rule. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2014-06-14 11:15 |
| #7 So does this mean the F-35 will be able to do close support from 30,000 feet? Because they won't let it get any closer than that. Nice 35mm (or whatever) canon it has there. With lots of ammo, too. |
| Posted by: gorb 2014-06-14 09:47 |
| #6 But you have to understand, McDonnell Douglas says they'll make part of this in his district. It's all about the graft. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-06-14 07:54 |
| #5 Disgusting. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-14 01:50 |
| #4 bright pebbles - to have a mission you have to have a commander. Not a fucking coward in chief who goes golfing after denying the support requests. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-06-14 01:29 |
| #3 Its not like theres a mission for the A10 right now protecting US workers in iraq from ISIS. |
| Posted by: bright pebbles 2014-06-14 01:21 |
| #2 The F-35 provides less close air support than the A-10 at an astronomical additional cost. Complete idiots. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-14 01:09 |
| #1 Run them all out of office. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-06-14 00:42 |