{"id":70193,"date":"2017-02-08T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70193"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:04:06","slug":"when-pigs-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70193","title":{"rendered":"When Pigs Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve been flying for some time now and people seem to like them a lot. The concern for some time has been whether or not the A-10 a\/k\/a the Warthog will be mothballed or kept in service.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who has heard that rapid-fire \u2018brrrrrrrrrtttt!\u2019 from a Gatling gun, you\u2019ll be relieved to know that your beloved tank-bustin\u2019 Warthog gets to stick around for a few more years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/a10%20retirement%202021\">http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/a10%20retirement%202021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the discussion revolves around whether to mothball the flying shark, or replace it with a different form of close air support (CAS), the general tendency seems to be moving in the direction of a family of air support for ground forces, which has already been found to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, as a taxpayer, I\u2019d question the need to move away from something that works, especially since money is limited at this point. Remember, the CiC has to persuade Congress that his programs are more important than funding some daydreams.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, USAF Chief of Staff GEN Goldfein wants off-the-shelf stuff, not experimental airframes.\u00a0 He sounds like a practical sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve been flying for some time now and people seem to like them a lot. The &hellip; <a title=\"When Pigs Fly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70193\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Pigs Fly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101117,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions\/101117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}