Keeping the A-10 in operation.

AuthorHandy, John
PositionReaders' Forum

* Regarding the September story, "Fight to Keep A-10 Warthog in Air Force Inventory Reaches End Game," I am a taxpayer, not an aviator, so I have a bit of a dispassionate view of this issue.

It seems that the single greatest flaw of the A-10, an exceptionally reliable piece of military hardware in the inventory, is that they are already paid for. The reason we jettison so much of our well-functioning equipment is not that it fails to work or work...

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