A-10 Warthogs Are Operating From A Tent Village In Palau
Joseph Trevithick - Yesterday 3:34 PM
A U.S. Air Force detachment consisting of at least two A-10C Warthog ground attack jets, pilots, and various support personnel is currently operating out of tents at Roman Tmetuchl International Airport in the South Pacific archipelago nation of Palau. The contingent, detached from a larger force of A-10Cs temporarily deployed on the U.S. island of Guam, is taking part in an exercise meant to explore how the service could conduct operations from a distributed array of locations in a future major conflict, such as one against China. This rare deployment is all part of larger Air Force efforts to develop new and improved concepts of operation in the face of ever-growing threats to larger, established base facilities, especially in the Pacific Region.
A-10Cs and personnel from the Air Force's 23rd Wing, headquartered at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, first began to arrive at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam on October 23. The commander of the 23rd Wing, Col. Russell Cook, posted on Facebook on October 30 that "The gang’s all here!," indicating the initial deployment of which is now referred to as the 23rd Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW) had been completed. That post included pictures showing at last 12 Warthogs at Andersen, along with an HC-130J Combat King II combat search and rescue aircraft, also from the 23rd Wing, and a C-130J Hercules airlifter from the 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota Air Base in Japan.
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