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Tucson, Air Force is getting their way and retiring the A-10. Probably a few left there. A Special Ops squadron is replacing them. Air Rescue.
The future of Davis Monthan without the A-10 Warthog is becoming more clear | Living In Tucson | NewsBreak Original
Yeah, sadly they are starting to retire some of those A-10's. Hill AFB here does fly these birds quite often though, they have a big shop here.
It is good to see them around, gives me the warm fuzzies seeing them fly.
There is an ANG Squadron in Idaho that flies these often as well. The 190th "Skull Bangers". That Squadron made their own little bar in their building, they had shot glasses made from the 30mm casings, DPU free I'm sure, lol.
And also the A-10's engines are TF-34's, somewhat similar to what I used to work on. When I was in tech school in Sheppard AFB TX I was right next to the A-10 engine shop class they were called "B-Shred" training class I think. We were the "C-Shreds" for TF-33's.
Then you had the "Super heavies" TF-39's, don't know what Shred class they were called. But I remember seeing those monstrous engines for the first time, I was like "What the hell uses these? Oh yeah, gotta be the C5's".
@Righty Tighty Oh yeah, what surprised me about the A-10's is how freaking quiet they were compared to the F15, F16's and especially the new F35's. Those F35's are loud mutha's!
