The allocation for the A-10 is tiny and the Air Force has no trouble recruiting people who want to be pilots.

Don’t forget the VTOL configuration.

BRAAAAAP! That is all I have to say. :)

Thirty some odd years ago, my cavalry squadron would train with the A-10s out of England AFB in Louisiana from time to time. The very best part of every training exercise was night gunnery, sitting in the pitch black, the scout platoon strung out along the tree line, and the deafening growl of those Avengers as those…

The Warthog is armed with a seven-barrel GAU-8 Avenger cannon

One more aspect, which you don’t hear brought up enough because it tends to sound too dire: When a Warthog is lost, you lose a relatively cheap, essentially single-purpose piece of equipment. When you lose an F-15, F-18, or F-35 in a CAS role, you lose a LOT more money and a LOT broader capability. There is still a…

Rest easy Mattis is in charge. He’ll knife hand the shit out of anyone (Trump/Bannon) if they try anything stupid.

China is already busy fighting off a monster invasion with Matt Damon, so that may work in our favor #watchingtoomanymoviepreviews

You know when we should have taken that significant first step with respect to those artificial islands? Before they were built. Too late now, those horses have left the barn.

Don’t blame me, I voted for a comet.

you had me at “Leading photo with grossly-inaccurate caption”...

I can get behind that.

When it comes to government in general (and military in particular), never assign malice to an act that can be more easily explained by incompetence.

My bet is airstrikes, vs CAS/SAR. The explanation so far seems to lead to the conclusion. CAS would not be a strike mission per see and not pre planned. My bet it is pre-planned vs reactionary CAS or SAR missions.

I will call your source very credible, because it says:

I read. Regularly. Please go ahead and find me a reasonable source.

What utopian methodology would you have replace capitalism? Communism has never worked in practice. Socialism relies on capitalism to fund it’s socialized programs. You can’t get people in one country to agree on an acceptable politician. To move funds to the lower 50% of the world, you would need a single world…

Too late. Putins paid lapdogs watch this blog like a hawk.

The US (and several other nations) signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, a treaty where it swore to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for Kyiv giving up it’s nuclear arsenal. Ukraine held up it’s side of the bargain, and everyone else seems to be reneging on theirs. This is why Russia hasn’t “officially”…

The irony, of course, is that it actually DID work in Afghanistan.