{"id":62391,"date":"2015-10-21T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62391"},"modified":"2015-10-20T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T22:30:02","slug":"the-a-10-goes-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62391","title":{"rendered":"The A-10 goes to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh A. Welsh III visited Hill Air Force Base in Utah last week to visit that white elephant the F35. While he was there he said this according to the Standard Examiner<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to a report from the base\u2019s 75th Air Base Wing, Welsh told the Hill group the A-10, while long-beloved, needs to be retired.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe A-10 will not be used in a high threat environment,\u201d Welsh said. \u201cSeventy percent of the A-10s we used during the first Gulf War suffered battle damage. It’s a rugged airplane, but it’s not hard to hit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, we fast forward to this week where AFP<\/a> reports that 12 A-10 Thunderbolts (Warthogs) have deployed to Incirlik, Turkey to take part in the war against ISIS;<\/p>\n

The 12 planes, famed for their tank-destroying capabilities, arrived over the weekend and have already been scheduled to fly missions in support of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria, the official told AFP.<\/p>\n

Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said the move had “added capability” to the coalition’s efforts against IS. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the Air Force had their way, the A-10 would have disappeared before Desert Storm even started, but here it is, 24 years later, a week after the Chief of Staff said they were useless on the modern battlefield going back into battle. Reality always bites the Pentagon-types right in their collective ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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