{"id":28411,"date":"2014-03-05T00:42:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28411"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:13:01","slug":"budget-proposal-air-force-to-retire-a-10s-u-2s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/budget-proposal-air-force-to-retire-a-10s-u-2s\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Proposal: Air Force to Retire A-10s, U-2s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/a10u2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140224\/BENEFITS02\/302240023\">controversial DoD budget proposal<\/a> that has been in the news for the past few weeks contains two specific items for the US Air Force &#8212; the end (again) for the A-10 <em>Thunderbolt II<\/em> (&#8220;Warthog&#8221;), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/AboutUs\/FactSheets\/Display\/tabid\/224\/Article\/104560\/u-2stu-2s.aspx\">U-2<\/a> <em>Dragon Lady<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former is supposed to be replaced by the F-35; the latter, by the unmanned RQ-4 <em>Global Hawk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The A-10 has been on and off the chopping block for decades &#8212; most recently preserved by the very intentional <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/air-force-could-save-billions-by-cutting-a-10\/\">efforts of a single Senator<\/a>, who now calls this decision a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140224\/NEWS\/302240042\">serious mistake<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The controversial DoD budget proposal that has been in the news for the past few weeks contains two specific items for the US Air Force &#8212; the end (again) for the A-10 Thunderbolt II (&#8220;Warthog&#8221;), and the U-2 Dragon Lady. The former is supposed to be replaced by the F-35; the latter, by the unmanned RQ-4 Global Hawk. The A-10 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[332,134,118,5285,2,1573,2657],"class_list":["post-28411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-a-10","tag-air-force","tag-f-35","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-rq-4","tag-u-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}