frixon28 Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 (edited) Hello everyone while doing research on a local Air National Guard Unit's History here in New England I learned that they did deploy all deploy to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. They deployed as the 387th AEG. The deployed A-10's were from the 131st FS of Massachusetts ANG and 118 FS of the Connecticut ANG, both units have lost their A-10's :cry: Quite some interesting story's about the infrastructure aspects and also about the first integration of the Litening AT TGP on A-10A+ models. I found this as a New...Englander(?) very interesting, but I'm sure everyone with any interest in military aviation will also like it! Also just interesting about A-10 operations! http://warthogdeployments.blogspot.com/2008/10/10-units-of-operation-iraqi-freedom-oif_31.html?m=1 http://www.sponauer.com/a-10litening/index.html Some important excerpts and pictures of aircraft/patches are below... "The 131st FS and the 118th FS were selected in fall 2002 to be the first ever to modify A-10s for employing the Litening AT targeting pod. This advanced pod allowed the drop of 500-pound GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided bombs without external guidance" The website has many pictures that are blocked by Photo Bucket that are sadly unavailable Edited November 9, 2017 by frixon28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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