Posted on Apr 16, 2023
The Air Force plans to eliminate nearly half of the jobs in the tactical air control party |...
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Not a smart move IMO.
The Air Force plans to eliminate nearly half of the jobs in the tactical air control party |...
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TAC Fire Operations Specialist
TAC Fire Operations Specialist
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Being retired AF Sir, any plans on what the AF plans are for ground air support? First they push hard to get rid of the A10 and now this. I cannot believe our AF would grossly abandon the ground troops as it would appear.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
The stated AF position is that the F-35 can assume the CAS role. You and I know that's bogus but with shrinking budgets and both fighter and bomber buys pending the AF is never going to champion development of a new CAS platform. Technically the AF has never developed a CAS aircraft; the A-10 was developed as a Soviet tank killer that could also take out the mobile SAMs that traveled with their armor units. The fall of the Soviet Union left the A-10 with no mission but fortunately some forward thinkers in both the Army and AF conceived the CAS mission they now have.
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Translation: AF is going to focus more on air to air and surface to air. F the ground troops.
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