Rest in peace, Senator John McCain! You and Senator Martha McSally( former A-10 squadron commander and combat pilot in the first Gulf War) prevented the partial retirement of the A-10 Warthog for a few years.
Our military is becoming Hollow again. Air Force generals want to cut money out of budgets so they can put it into their pet projects because President Biden gives trillions of dollars away to people who don't deserve it, messes up our economy, causes inflation that also hurts the defense budget and is irresponsible. Congress goes along with the Air Force request but the Air Force is biased against a close air support aircraft like this one. Even the super Tucano light close air support aircraft is not successful.
The brainiacs in Congress want to give money away to people who don't deserve it, they want to buy your vote, they want illegal aliens to be able to vote immediately and everything that the United States stands for is being eroded, degraded or dismantled including this close air support aircraft thanks to other crazy leftist issues and priorities in our brokeback President Biden and his predominantly left Congress. That's why you saw Arizona senator Christian Sinema go independent because people like her and West Virginia senator Joe m a c h i n have been left behind by Democrats who have morphed into being so left, they make JFK and President Clinton look like moderate Republicans today.
Woke Democrats pick winners and losers, our military suffers and our military has to pick winners and losers as well.
Let us not forget that the infantryman and the US Marine are the ones who are going to suffer and die because of precision close air support like this will no longer be available if all these planes are put into davis-montham Air Force Base.