re: #333 jamesfirecat

Which is why at this point pretty much every time this argument comes up the same thing happens… (As I understand if I am wrong please correct me)

Air Force: We’re gonna phase out use of the A-10 and mothball it.

Army: So you’ve got a bunch of A-10’s you’re not going to be using any more? Can we have them so we can handle CAS within our own chain of command?

Air Force: Did we say we were giving up on the A-10? Nope, wouldn’t even imagine doing such a thing!

In short the Armed Services like any institution run by human beings has it’s problems.

The Army has never wanted to take possession of the A-10 fleet.
For the simple reason that the Air Force wishes to mothball the A-10 for budgetary reasons (and always has). And, would there for certainly not transfer funds/personnel to the Army, as would be necessary for the Army to operate the A/C.
Thus, the Army would be required to cut programs/units to make funds/personnel available to operate the A-10