called the tank killer and the warthog. as combat jets go, it s low and slow and ugly, yet revered by ground forces around the world for the world of hurt it can deliver to the enemy. after piloting a-10s, mcsally retired as a colonel and turned to politics. but today we learned something about senator mcsally that only close friends and family knew. she told a hearing of the armed services committee that she is a survivor of sexual assault in the military. she was raped by a superior officer in the air force and today she told her story directly to other survivors. like you, i am also a military sexual assault survivor. but unlike so many brave survivors, i didn t report being sexually assaulted. like so many women and men, i didn t trust the system at the time.
went to the air force academy then on to harvard and flew the fearsome and iconic a-10 in combat in iraq. the a-10 is also affectionately called the tank killer and the warthog. as combat jets go, it s low and slow and ugly, yet revered by ground forces around the world for the world of hurt it can deliver to the enemy. after piloting a-10s, mcsally retired as a colonel and turned to politics. but today we learned something about senator mcsally that only close friends and family knew. she told a hearing of the armed services committee that she is a survivor of sexual assault in the military. she was raped by a superior officer in the air force and today she told her story directly to other survivors. like you, i am also a military sexual assault survivor. but unlike so many brave
combat in iraq. the a-10 is also affectionately called the tank killer and the warthog. as combat jets go, it s low and slow and ugly, yet revered by ground forces around the world for the world of hurt it can deliver to the enemy. after piloting a-10s, mcsally retired as a colonel and turned to politics. but today we learned something about senator mcsally that only close friends and family knew. she told a hearing of the armed services committee that she is a survivor of sexual assault in the military. she was raped by a superior officer in the air force and today she told her story directly to other survivors. like you, i am also a military sexual assault survivor. but unlike so many brave survivors, i didn t report being sexually assaulted. like so many women and men, i
keeping an eye on a formidable current foe in north korea. dana, yeah. it was exactly almost felt like going back in time to a cold war period. considering the tensions that are felt in this region, maybe appropriate. you see that pilot in his high altitude gear. that s because he is up 14 miles above the planet. and he can, in fact, be up there for about ten hours. again, that plane that s been stripped down to the basics, but inside, all sorts of telemetry signals intelligence. and then it is sent back down to the base. we all saw on that base offensive aircraft. the f-16 fighter jet used around the world. also the a-10 tank killer wart hog. so if information is said of something untorrid coming from north of the dmz, they can move.
spend time with the a10 tank killer planes at that base. they ve seen a lot of action in other hot spots. they provide a close cover for ground troops with missiles and with a very nasty machine gun in their nose cone. here is how pilots of the two planes described their missions. can be a very tense time. that s what we do here is we do our daily mission but we re always maintaining our readiness. we go to the same airspace we ve been going to in a wartime situation 30 miles in the north of us and we ll be there in defense of the no officers say they are planning for a preemptive strike, military option, but they also said if they re provoked and they said that s happening quite a bit lately, they are ready. bill: thank you, greg, good to have you on the ground in