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I admit it, as a former infantryman, I’m a partial to the A-10 Thunderbolt II. I don’t mind that it’s ugly. I don’t mind that it entered service all the way back in the mid 1970s, making it older than me. I don’t mind that it’s slow, basically a flying 30 mm cannon sheathed in a 1,200-pound titanium “bathtub.” In fact, these are exactly the things that endear the A-10 to grunts like me. It’s our plane. It was made for us and us
An Infantryman’s Defense Of The A-10
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Infantry
Posted 9 y ago
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"Beauty is as beauty does" and the A-10 does a lot of beautiful things, doesn't it?
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Sometimes something ugly can be so beautiful, especially in combat. I always thought the Flying Cranes were ugly until it hauled five elephants out of an LZ. That was a beautiful site. It saved hours of hard work getting rid of them. BTW, they wete all dead from artillery strikes.
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CPT Jack Durish
SGT (Join to see) - Having been in the company of live elephants, I can tell you that you were lucky. Elephants become very nervous very easily and when they get nervous, they get diarrhea. I can't imagine much worse than being under a live elephant suspended from a flying crane. (And, yes, the flying crane was not any beauty except by what it did)
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CPT Jack Durish, These five elephants were already dead from artillery and gunship strikes. They were pretty calm and limp. Lol
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I concur with you wholeheartedly SGT (Join to see). Beauty like ugliness is largely in the eye of the beholder. While the A-10 is not graceful and sleek it is a welcome sight to those on the ground that it is supporting. On the other hand the sound of its approach with guns blazing strikes terror into an enemy.
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Why try to fix or use something that isn't better, when it's not broken and performing up to expectations? The A-10 is to infantry today that the rotary wings were to the infantry in Vietnam. Slow and deadly.
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SGT Jonathon Caldwell
I loved hearing them. It meant somebody was having a WAY worse day than I was.
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The A-10 was designed to support the service members on the ground doing the fighting, to which the A-10 has done and continuous to do a great job, but the idiots above that do not do any fighting with the exception for their lobbyist want to kill the A-10.
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