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About the same as the budget for grapeshot, I reckon.

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I can thank the fact that I live in an isolated and unpopulated area for getting to see something that few lifelong civilians like me probably ever see: a pair of A10s engaged in actual training maneuvers (not air show stuff) practically right over my damned head. Just above the treetops under which I was riding, in fact. So I gotta tell ya, the Warthog is one badass motherfucker of a warplane. No wonder these things scare the shit out of the Taliban.

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Oh yeah. If you are an enemy combatant, seeing one of these bad boys heading your way must definitely be pants-soiling time.

I am no expert on DoD budgets, but it seems to be that this is one weapons platform that is highly effective and has proven itself in combat over and over again.

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If defense was government spending, the GOP would be against it because government spending doesn't stimulate the economy or create jobs.

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Damn. The warthog was one of Simba's most trusted weapons systems.

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On the plus side, the army will so debilitated that Second Amendment Patriots™ will be able to defeat it when Easy Company comes to force health insurance down our throats.

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So, it'll be reduced to a quick in-and-out.

Maybe once a week or so.

As if it wanted it any other way.

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They dinna know how much more of it the engines can take!

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prolonged, as in- if it lasts for more than four hours, please see your doctor

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If the matter/anti-matter isn't just right they could end up warped.

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all the cool SWAT teams have close air support...

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sadly, they need to find a new driver

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the best part is the titanium butt protection. pilots really learned to love a plane that literally saved them from getting their ass shot off

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<i>He has found another thing to point at and yell “Obama takers did a socialism!” while being a huge hypocrite at the very same time.</i>

It’s like Conservapedia decided to get up and walk around.

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that word 'mandatory'. I do not think it means what he thinks it means

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Yeah my friend who was in Infantry is pretty much beside himself at the news, as he feels that the Warthog is one of the most effective ground attack vectors the military has.

It would even be one thing if we had a legit replacement for it, but those things were pretty much unique.

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