Originally Posted by Deuce130

And also completely typical of our moronic elected officials. It's up there with forcing the Air Force to buy planes it does not want or need. I won't take a side on whether we should keep the A-10 or not, I don't know enough about CAS to say. But, when politicians begin to decide what the military does and doesn't need, no good can come of it. We cannot afford everything that each individual congressman wants for their constituents. No wonder we're 17 trillion in debt and going deeper.