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I remember back when Vietnam was ramping up the US Navy wanted to have all of the Riverine Boats Captained by a Officer in the grades between Ensign and Lieutenant. Some forward thinking brass in the Navy said how about making most of them Captained by mostly High Ranking Enlisted men. At first...

Having a Collegee Degree just to fly aircraft in the Air Forces sounds like the dumbest policy I have ever heard of. You don't need a College Degree to fly a freaking passenger Airliner for a major carrier. Their pilot shortage is there own damn fault and need to drop that 4 year degree...

I have a solution to everyone's problem here. Force the US Air Force to make Flight Warrant Officers and have them as A-10 Pilots. The USAF is the only and I mean only branch of the Armed Forces that don't have Warrant Officers and Chief Warrant Officers. I say we fix that by forcing them to...

Just gonna post this because why not. Actual footage of the planes at work.

I remember a story about how Pilots were made to do ride a longs on Riverine Boats in Vietnam so that they would see why giving Air Support to boat crews was important. My sneeky side says it was a way the Boat Guys could make sure Air Cover showed up. Either cover us or Pilot Little Jimmy Gets it.

Not to mention the vaunted precision guided munitions have hit civilian targets because either the Pilot of the fancy jet or the Drone operator did an oopsy.

<deleted content> News flash you aren't gonna conduct CAS period in airspace that has not ban sanitized first. Even the vaunted F-35 would get knocked out of the sky with anti-air weapons until that happens. And on an important note. Bullets will remain cheaper than Bombs and missiles any day...

I will just leave this here. The A-10 still has uses.