PART ONE A-10 ON THE FRONT LINE: OPERATION ‘ANACONDA’

COMBAT REPORT The A-10 has been engaged in combat operations in Afghanistan since 2002, and it continues to operate in that theater today. We look back to its very first missions in ‘Enduring Freedom’, which proved to be a baptism of fire. With its refueling door still open, A-10A 78-0598 of the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron slides away from a tanker over Afghanistan. ‘Hogs’ worked in pairs over the battlefield, and missions could find them ranging over nearly every corner