{"id":56284,"date":"2014-11-06T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56284"},"modified":"2014-11-06T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:59:23","slug":"mccain-promises-to-rescue-the-warthog-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56284","title":{"rendered":"McCain promises to rescue the Warthog from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/capitol-hill\/2014\/11\/06\/sen-john-mccain-vows-to-save-a-10-from-retirement\/18604159\/\">The Military Times<\/a> reports that John McCain promised to save the A-10 Thunderbolt from being retired by the Air Force;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McCain said Thursday the A-10 is the best close-air support aircraft ever made and there is &#8220;no doubt&#8221; Congress will prevent its retirement. Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson has 80 of the twin-jet planes and trains A-10 pilots.<\/p>\n<p>McCain says there&#8217;s no replacement for the jet&#8217;s close-air support mission and pointed to a June friendly fire in Afghanistan where a B-1 bomber mistakenly targeted American troops, killing five.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2014\/11\/05\/gop-win-sets-stage-for-mccain-to-put-pressure-on-pentagon.html?comp=7000023317828&#038;rank=1\">Military.com<\/a> speculates that McCain may end up being the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the next Congress;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s taken outspoken stances on many of the recent defense issues that have dominated the military to include the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, supporting rebels in Syria and holding the defense industry accountable for failures on big ticket weapons programs.<\/p>\n<p>McCain was one of the first lawmakers to urge President Obama to start arming Syrian rebels from the outset of the civil war. In fact, he snuck into Syria last year to meet with Syrian rebel leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If he&#8217;s successful saving the A-10, he&#8217;ll have done more for infantrymen than he&#8217;s ever done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Military Times reports that John McCain promised to save the A-10 Thunderbolt from being retired &hellip; <a title=\"McCain promises to rescue the Warthog from extinction\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56284\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain promises to rescue the Warthog from extinction<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}