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Why not?
Stats
The 160th alone has a net asset of 125 units worth $2.55b
A flight of 20 x A-10s would cost 192m
That's barely 7.5% of total asset base
SOCOM has its own line to the budget.
This doesn't seem like a red tape or money problem
Perhaps SOCOM genuinely believes that the Boeing AH-64D Apache attack helicopter is a sufficient CAS platform.
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