
Several members of the House and Senate sent a clear message to the Air Force on Thursday that they were not willing to accept any compromise deals on the A-10 fleet. After the Air Force proposed a plan to retire 72 of the A-10 Warthog close air support planes – rather than divesting the whole fleet, as the service’s fiscal year 2015 budget request would do – Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) assemble a group of lawmakers, former Joint Terminal Attack…