Damaged Warthog Makes it back

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I vaguely remember a report or story which said the Army is looking to take over responsibility for A-10.'s. The Air Force like speed and the Army like durability and loitering time and is not really impressed with combat vehicles that leave the area at a great speed. I guess the Army will have to get a waver to the rotary wing edict.
 
I've always admired the 'hog for it's many virtues, and agree that it's a perfect example of an incredibly useful and stellar weapon/platform that was simply cancelled too early.

I also recall seeing them come back from GWI way more beat up than this. As I recall, they're triply redundant in all critical systems, and the pilot sits in a tub of kevlar coated titanium, covered with a ballistic blanket.

I've also heard that the crew chiefs regularly replace the cushions on verbal (rather than written) request, without comment.

Without a doubt, it's the plane that has caused more enemy infantryman's pants to be set to "condition brown" than any other, with the possible exception of the C130 gunships.
 
Re the "turf fights" mentioned/described in other posts in this discussion or is it threads, given that the U.S. Airforce and the U.S. Army are "involved" or would bickering be a better term, given that they each serve the same country, or have they gone into business for themselves, one would think that they would have outgrown turf battles, and similar examples of childishness, despite the fact that other branches of government, members of our our so-called intelligence establishment in particular haven't.

O.K., so the A-10 doesn't fly fast enough, high enough or far enough to make The Airforce happy. If The Army is happy with them, despite the above mentioned "limitations", why the hell would The Air Force stand in the way? It might be that I'm "slow", but these "turf fights", when the same turf doesn't even seem to be involved, simply do not make any sense.
 
the warthog is probably the most durable jet in existence. I remember hearing one pilot on discovery channel during program saying a warthog took well over 100 bullets and had 1 engine destroyed yet it was still able to fly home.

its not much to look at but it sure seems to give tax payers their moneys worth.
 
Isn't it funny that the media tripped over their tongues covering Jessica and Shoshona, but nothing is mentioned about the female Warthog pilot?
 
Long live the "Thunderbolt!" The A-10 picks up where the famed P-47 left off.

I remember reading a story of a WWII pilot whose P-47 had run out of ammo. His lead had an ME-109 on his tail, so the P-47 driver slid alongside the ME and slapped a wing tip down into the cockpit of the ME. The ME went down and the P-47 went home.

Tim
 
MarkDido wrote:



Isn't it funny that the media tripped over their tongues covering Jessica and Shoshona, but nothing is mentioned about the female Warthog pilot?


I suppose that it all depends on how one spells "funny". Actually, I think that "sad" or "strange" might be more suitable adjectives to describe media's relative "silence".
 
A-10

I worked on them from 1977 to 1980 at Myrtle Beach AFB, S.C. They will always be MY favorite! Ours were the gray color at first and then we started receiving the camo ones. I do like the F-15 Eagle, but the WartHog will remain dear to my heart.
 
markdido wrote:

"Isn't it funny that the media tripped over their tongues covering Jessica and Shoshona, but nothing is mentioned about the female Warthog pilot?"

alan wrote:

"I suppose that it all depends on how one spells "funny". Actually, I think that "sad" or "strange" might be more suitable adjectives to describe media's relative "silence"."

True. I attribute it to Media Bias

After all, Jessica and Shoshone were simply poor enlisted women who only joined the military for the educational benefits and never imagined that they might actually get sent to war...

While K.C (The Warthog Pilot) was a merciless killer, dropping bombs on old women in wheelchairs and babies.
 
After all, Jessica and Shoshone were simply poor enlisted women who only joined the military for the educational benefits and never imagined that they might actually get sent to war...

While K.C (The Warthog Pilot) was a merciless killer, dropping bombs on old women in wheelchairs and babies.

I'm curious as to the following. Notwithstanding nation building, humitarian activities, educational benefits, and that sort of thing, the purpose of anyone's army, it has been noted is as follows: "To break things and kill people", or put in a slightly different set of words, "to fight wars". I hadn't noticed that 2 + 2 had come to equal anything other than the usual 4, though I might have missed a salient point or two somewhere along the way.

As to the role of media in the above, the following is perhaps off point, please bear with me, but the following comes to mind. The absolutely blatant, slanted, distorted pack of lies that pass for news coverage regarding anything having to do with firearms.

Given that, is anyone really surprised at the fact that media slants their coverage of "military affairs", and this is definately not to say that the military has never dropped the ball either, for they have, and as with this turf battle, or what appears to be a turf battle between The Army and The Airforce, they continue to so do. Of course, media continues to grind such axes as might be handy, at any given moment also.
 
It comes down to the fact that the pilot of the Warthog was not injured, did not get rescued, did not have hospital interviews, and did not have a parade in her honor when she got back home.

In the media world, no news is, well, no news.
 
I'm so confused

According to our illustrious NYS Assembly leader Sheldon Silver we need to ban .50 cal rifles to keep terrorists from shooting down 747's. Must be the guns they have in Iraq aren't as dangerous.

I hope that young lady was able to dish out a little before she got hit.
 
I remember seeing photos of an A-10 that was shot up a lot worse in Desert Storm. They are extraordinary planes !!
 
Local gal

Her dad is a local politician and awfully proud of that young lady. I remember she did an interview and said as soon as she was hit she was afraid it would keep her from flying cover over the grunts on the ground. That was what scared her most!
I think she was back up the next day. In her plane or perhaps another, not certain. That must give Islamic Fundamentalists Fits!!!
 
Just so we're all on the same page here, and certainly not to take anything away from either the airplane or the pilot, please note that this story is just over a year old.
 
Yep, thats my baby. (not the one in the picture, just the MDS)

Thats why I have enjoyed working the Hog for the last 18 years.

A-10; "Ugly" but well hung!
 
Isn't it funny that the media tripped over their tongues covering Jessica and Shoshona, but nothing is mentioned about the female Warthog pilot?

Actually, while they didn't have as much about her, I remember seeing them interview her on tv back when this happened.

The best part was when, with a cocky grin, she said that K.C. stood for "killer chick". :D
 
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