CSAF stands for Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to some…. to other it stands for Chicken Shit A-10 Foe. Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, is too scared to tell the truth. He told half of the truth – the F-35 can’t replace the A-10, but he claimed he doesn’t want to kill the A-10….. that would be a lie….
From John Q. Public:
McCain Pulverizes “Disingenuous” CSAF on A-10
If you’ve never witnessed an honest-to-goodness, woodshed quality Congressional beat-down, your wait is over. Grab your popcorn and marvel at the sheer spectacle of what can only be accurately described as a public gelding.
If you’re having trouble calling to mind another example of such a brutal public flogging of a member of the joint chiefs of staff, it’s because this doesn’t happen very often. John McCain basically told Mark Welsh to shut up at one point. While hearings such as this are partly (if not mostly) theatrical, this is extreme stuff. It’s a chronicle of lost confidence and mutual distrust.
Lest anyone believe McCain was behaving arbitrarily, or that he was assailed by one of his seemingly involuntary fits of “get off my lawn” … it should be noted that there was nothing whimsical or mysterious about this confrontation — if something so lopsided can be granted that label. This was a predictable and eminently avoidable beating. So why didn’t Gen. Welsh avoid it? More on that in a few … but suffice to say it was a conscious choice.
There is an immutable truth at the core of this dispute. In fact, the “debate” about the A-10 has, over the last three budget cycles, been less about retiring it per se, and more about the Air Force’s refusal to stipulate plainly and transparently to this immutable truth.
Here it is:
The Air Force has no intention of replacing the A-10.
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