Originally Posted by
chuckman
As I recall the Mohawk was one of the AC that made the air force shit its' collective pants over the Key West Agreement. The air force wanted it both ways: the army not have armed fixed-wing AC, but really didn't want to do CAS, either (but when they did it, did it well a la A-1, A-7, A-10....). As I understood it the army had armed Mohawks in VN "for defensive purposes only" or something like that (wink wink), but was on station as CAS when needed.
My comments are not to say that the AF CAS pilots weren't/aren't great at what they do; everyone I needed, or met in person, embraced getting low and dirty.
This is the problem with the Pointynose Mafia culture ruling the post-Nam USAF... when the path to AFCS was through being CINCSAC first, the bomber guys tried to take care of everyone but as soon as TAC got on top it was "Screw everybody but us," and that included their fighter brethren at ADC.
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