“Immediately after the ‘cleared hot,’ I heard my flight lead interject.”
“Abort! Abort! Abort!” the flight lead barked into the radio.
“State reason!” the B-1 crew demanded.
“Screw reason!” the A-10 leader responded. “God damn it, abort—you’re about to kill friendlies!”
Just one of a multitude f reasons the A-10 is needed. And why we should start up a new line and build some more of them.
Instead, we get this;
"On June 10, the House Appropriations Committee made clear the way many on Capitol Hill view national defense. By a raised-hands vote of 13 to 23, the Committee rejected an amendment from Congressman Jack Kingston—a Georgia Republican—to redirect $339 million from operation and maintenance funds, deemed excess, to retain 234 A-10 close air support aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory."
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