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Title: AF general who said protesting A-10 decision was ‘treason’ removed from post
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Stars & Stripes
URL Source: http://www.stripes.com/news/af-gene ... son-removed-from-post-1.339480
Published: Apr 10, 2015
Author: Travis J. Tritten
Post Date: 2015-04-10 18:10:14 by nolu chan
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AF general who said protesting A-10 decision was ‘treason’ removed from post By Travis J. Tritten WASHINGTON — The Air Force general who told airmen that speaking to Congress about plans to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt amounts to treason has left his command position and been reprimanded, the Air Combat Command said Friday. The service’s inspector general found that the comments by Maj. Gen. James Post, then the ACC vice commander, had a “chilling effect” and caused airmen to feel constrained about their right to speak to lawmakers about important issues, according to the command. Post was issued a letter of reprimand and is moving from his position following the statements Jan. 10 to about 300 airmen at a Weapons and Tactics Review Board meeting at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The board was discussing the controversial retirement of the A-10, which has sparked a pushback from Congress and infantry troops and pilots who believe it has unique capabilities on the battlefield. [snip]
Stars and Stripes
Published: April 10, 2015
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
There is nothing currently in the AF inventory (or any other services inventory) to replace the "Hog"!! In fact nothing is even on the drawing board to replace it, and if there was it would cost 20-50 times what the "Hogs" cost originally. I say find all of the old Fairchild jigs and dies and make some more since they were so effective and so cheap to make. Do some updates on them but make some more. When i was stationed in the UK we used to do RRR exercises periodically and we would put aircraft spotters miles away from where we were doing our thing to warn us of incoming aircraft. We would have the A10s stationed at Bentwaters infiltrate our perimeter to do mock strafing runs on us. They were so quiet and could fly so low sometimes thay would evade our spotters and and when you heard them you were looking down the barrel of that cannon. All you could do was “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
before you were simulated as being dead.
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