Flares are launched from two A-10C Thunderbolt IIs, based at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., on Aug. 18. Photograph by Staff Sgt. Jamal D. Sutter/U.S. Air Force
U.S. Sending A-10 Plane to Combat While Trying to Kill It -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Another batch of Cold War-vintage A-10 “Warthogs” is on its way to Afghanistan, even though the Pentagon says it no longer needs the plane.
About a dozen of the snout-nosed “flying guns” will arrive in Afghanistan early this month as part of a six-month deployment for the 122nd Fighter Wing of the Indiana Air National Guard, according to U.S. Central Command.
The deployment to Bagram Airfield within several weeks is part of a regular rotation that will replace an equivalent number of A-10s, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sholtis, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Forces Central Command, said in an e-mail.
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My Comment: I suspect that many in the U.S. military are going to miss her when she is gone.