
Newly-elected Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz) is prepared to offer an amendment that would keep the A-10 Warthog in Air Force fleets for another year, should funding not be present in the defense authorization bill when it is released by the House Armed Services Committee on Monday.A group of lawmakers led by McSally, a former Air Force colonel who piloted the A-10 attack plane and later commanded a Warthog-equipped squadron during the war in Afghanistan, authored a letter asking HASC chairman…