Morale booster A-10C Gun-Run in Idaho!

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

Anticipating an A-10C fly-by of Sailor Creek Range control tower in Idaho, 06MAR2021. 

‘Cleared Cold’ Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

The image reminds me of many such flyby’s when I worked on the Edwards Air Force Base, California, bombing range in the early 1980s.     

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

At some point somebody figured out that letting personnel, and their families, watch bombing/gunnery runs was a great morale booster.     

‘Cleared Hot’ Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

124th Fighter Wing Thunderbolt-2 turns for a ‘hot’  gun-run on Sailor Creek Range, 06MAR2021.

Idaho ANG photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan

Idaho Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Joseph R. Morgan, 06MAR2021.

Sailor Creek Range is in the Owyhee Valley in Southwestern Idaho.  You can barely see the A-10C.

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