Agreed. Attack helicopters plus some fixed-wing assets with long loiter give plenty of flexibility for various kinds of CAS missions. And all this should real

Agreed. Attack helicopters plus some fixed-wing assets with long loiter give plenty of flexibility for various kinds of CAS missions. And all this should really belong to the Army (and Marines [1]) instead of the Air Force, which desperately wants to stay high, fast and stealthy. [1] And the entire DoD needs to re-think about how and why we're usually deploying Marines on land, for typical land-based missions that are the main remit of the Army.