First A-10 Combat Mission into Afghanistan

First A-10 Combat Mission into Afghanistan | Col Scott "Soup" Campbell

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Күн бұрын

Episode 100 of ‪@AfterburnPodcast‬ with Colonel (Ret) Scott 'Soup' Campbell shares his experiences and insights from his time flying the A-10 during the early days of Afghanistan. Col. Campbell led the first and second A-10 missions into Afghanistan during OPERATION ANACONDA. He was awarded three Distinguished Flying Crosses (citations link below) as a result of those early combat missions. He is a former A-10 Weapons School graduate and instructor.
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Chapters
00:00 The Challenges of Air Operations in Afghanistan
03:35 Building and Sustaining the Afghan Air Force
20:01 Opening mission in Afghanistan, successful air missions
36:11 Tactical Decision-Making and Mission Baseline
37:53 Entering Afghanistan: Navigating the Terrain and Battle Space
41:15 Navigating the Kill Box: Coordination and Control
45:07 Combat Scenarios: Dynamic Challenges and Adaptation
01:08:15 Daytime Operations: Strike Reconnaissance and Coordination
01:12:05 The Valley Below Robert's Ridge
01:15:21 Tactical Maneuvers and High-Angle Strafe
01:17:10 Jet Deployment and Mission Impact
01:20:03 Close air support mission in Afghanistan was intense.
01:41:58 Striving for improvement and reflecting on experience
Afghanistan, air operations, A-10, air force, conflict, nation-building, counterinsurgency, Afghan air force, technical aspects, challenges, strategies, military operation, battle space management, close air support, tactical decisions, air-ground coordination, combat scenarios, air asset integration, combat operations, weapon school, fighter pilot, career decisions, personal reflections, training, mentorship, leadership, mission-oriented, pilot training, aircraft selection

Пікірлер: 28

@-Who.Knows- 2 ай бұрын

Truck driver Here...just finished 10 day trip to South Ogden,Utah. Listen to hours of Afterburner the whole way there and back. Helped me pass ALOT of time. Didn't realize I was 5 miles from Hill AFB until a train of F35's flew over me low level. Best part of my whole trip. Thanks for everything you and your guest have done and will do. Keep em coming brother.

@AfterburnPodcast Ай бұрын

Glad to hear it and happy to hear you enjoyed it. 🤘🏻🇺🇸

@PAS_2020 2 ай бұрын

Cannot say enough, how much the A-10s have saved lives. Seriously cannot understand why the military wants to retire the A-10. Like a lot of A-10 pilots say - “We’ll be back”.

@AfterburnPodcast 2 ай бұрын

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@christopho3255 Ай бұрын

GWOT wasted airframe hours of countless platform including the A10 and B1 ect ect.... Prime contractor consolidation combined with ever increasing cost plus contracts has only made acquisition worse and creates incentives for new projects. Fairchild Republic was gone long before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Soup touched on how parts were being cannibalized for multiple platforms which is simply unsustainable. The A10 may be food for blowing holes in the sand but it's been saved for years and now the entire military can't effectively procure much of anything besides larger funding requests. Boeing can't get the T-7 sorted, no one is flying, let's not even start with the Navy's unacceptable program management i.e. LCS, Constellation, sub production, SIOP drydock cost overruns and delays accross the board.. Prime contractors with zero accountability are actively threatening national security.

@Mch79157 Ай бұрын

A-10 Crew Chief, 75th FS from 1998 to 2002 (tail number 157) here. Col. Campbell (Captain at the time) was one of our pilots. I had great conversations with the pilots waiting for them to taxi before flight. It was an honor and privilege maintaining the jets and serving with everyone in the Tigershark community.

@JohnWinters-tf8jt 2 ай бұрын

Soup is the real deal! Great interview; he has much more to offer than was shared here. One of the absolute best that I worked with in my 38 year Air Force career! Trapper

@JHillNC Ай бұрын

This episode is solid gold. Col. Campbell's story from the air during Anaconda fills in so many gaps for me. I highly recommend the book Not A Good Day To Die - The Untold Story Of Operation Anaconda, by Sean Naylor. It is HIGHLY detailed and really paints a comprehensive picture, and Col. Campbell's recount of events makes perfect sense and fills out the air mission to create such a greater understanding. I can't tell you how valuable this episode is to fully understand what our military was like in the six months post 9/11 and how far we've come. Thank you so much!

@paulsalvestrin7253 2 ай бұрын

All i can say is holy crap! He certainly earned his DFC's

@AfterburnPodcast 2 ай бұрын

💯

@drewjames8594 2 ай бұрын

Amazing interview. It’s incredible we didn’t have aircraft collisions on these early night ops much less more friendly fire.

@billallen3696 Ай бұрын

As always, very good show. I wish I had some sort of military aviator guide to all the jargon.

@zr1pja 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for a very entertaining interview.

@Scoop1_1 28 күн бұрын

Awesome interview and storyteller. You have to put him into contact with Baltic Dragon and have him immortalize some of those awesome missions into a new Hog campaign, special now with the Afghan map coming.

@boggy8557 Ай бұрын

Awesome!

@aaronzeiger216 2 ай бұрын

Always love your content.

@AfterburnPodcast 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Golfrnut Ай бұрын

No hate intended, but Grace wasn't on the Robert's Ridge sortie that night, it was Maj Short, who was a prior A-10 dude.

@HawgDriver95 Ай бұрын

@Golfrnut - thanks for the point out on the misspeak; yes, Junior & Panzer were overhead, Grace was the weapons officer that briefed us up that morning. When Junior got back, he went right to our squadron commander and told him he had to get us into the fight.

@Golfrnut Ай бұрын

@@HawgDriver95 you are welcome. And again, no ill-intentions meant by my original post. Always cool to hear other perspectives and piece stories together from those who were there at the time. I know what I know from the crews that I was around, but not much more. That '02 Jaber trip will always be my favorite deployment. Just saying hello and thanks for sharing your story and some of your 30 mil with us. Ha!

@anothernewaccount1657 Ай бұрын

God hearing how much of a charlie foxtrot this was, it's amazing we ever win any wars. How do we get anything done?

@kanunsibrays5569 2 ай бұрын

What do you think 420 miles per hour is enough to pass all the fires i know the A10 have the 30mm but that doesn't mean it won't down Do you know what's the special about A10 Hog? It is the design that can give it the ability to take a shot and still fighting and the LARS Radio.