re: Bad arse A-10 Flyby

I grew up seeing A-10s flying around Alexandria pretty much every day. Honestly, we didn’t know how lucky we were. I remember fishing on Indian Creek lake during the summer and they would fly by so low that you could see the pilots waving.

——Same here, floating in an inner tube in Cane River watching A-10s dancing in the sky overhead. So cool.

My grandparents had a large pasture in Winn Parish and back when the A-10s were in Alexandria they would make practice runs at grandparent's barn all the time. Even had an Air Force officer visit and ask if that was a problem. The land is just in the middle of nowhere with few neighbors around. My grandparents loved to see them and even the horses got to where they would try to run with planes. Waiting on one side of the pasture and try to chase them. They came so often it wouldn't even bother the cows, goats or chickens. When we were fishing in the pond they would make tight turns and wave at us.