Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It's plausible that isolated pockets within the army want the A-10 (most ESPECIALLY the guys who would get to fly them
), but big army does not really want to own the A-10 or they would have it. Big army would love to keep the capability forever...with the AF paying the bill of course. If the USMC can have strike fighters, the army could have A-10's if it wanted them.
That's actually not true. When the AF was created in 1947 the avaition roles of the AF and Army were basically written into law.