4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING(P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL

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    E: That is going to take a little bit of thought. It is
    working so smoothly that there is not really much that we
    could or would want to change. I think in a perfect world,
    our Viper ramp is probably a good quarter to a half mile
    away from Alamo ops here, which is the A-10 ops. They don't
    have a whole lot of room.
    
    We brought our captain up here to sit behind the desk and
    answer refragging questions, talk to TACC, and log takeoff
    and landing times of F-16s. The only thing that I would    
    really like to do; and 1t 1s certainly not necessary, is to
    get some additional communications, a hot line to TACC,
    another radio, a couple of more phones, and work out of what
    we call the Hooter hut, actually the Viper hut, which is a
    tent that we have set up where maintenance is working out
    of, and just have us pretty much an autonomous ops down
    there so that we don't have to be involved 1n the way of the
    A-10's because they are busy and are going to get busier once
    the ground war starts. So I think in a perfect world I
    would do that, but it is not necessary.
    
    S: Speaking of the ground war, when the ground war does start,    
    do You see any drastic changes in your mission?

    E: No, not a whole lot of drastic changes: I think with the
    troops in contact, the A-10 is the airplane that is designed
    to do that best. We are still, because of how fast we go at
    our high-altitude tactics, going to be employed more in a
    BAY [battlefield air interdiction] role back behind the
    initial forward line of troops.
    
    I would expect that our job is going to be a little bit
    easier because it is going to force the Iraqis out of their
    bunkers. We are going to be able to find them easier. We
    won't have to worry about whether or not this tank is----
    
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