Updated 15 April 2009
Editor's note:
This post is still in the progress of editing with help from the photographer and other Warthog News contributors. It will correct and update my older post Twentieth 75th EFS A-10C identified by photo now, which was mainly wrong because I misinterpreted a single A-10 serial number and probably also some related background info.
Today, from Martin Lacey (the photographer) I got permission for using all of his related Al Udeid A-10C shots on Warthog News.
All shots were taken at Al Udeid AB, Qatar, home of USAF's 379th Air Expeditionary Wing, as some A-10Cs of the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron made their first stopover on their way back home from Bagram AB, Afghanistan, to Moody AFB, Georgia.
The pictures are posted chronological, according to the EXIF data shown on my PC.
The shark mouth of an unidentified A-10C. Note the four painted bombs as mission markings. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
Ladder door art DEUCES WILD of A-10C 80-0226 from the 74th Fighter Squadron and deployed with the original 75th EFS aircraft package. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey)
A-10Cs 80-0226 from the 74th Fighter Squadron (foreground), 79-0172 from the 74th Fighter Squadron (also deployed with the original 75th EFS aircraft package), and an unidentified third 'Hog' in the background. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
The "business end" of A-10C 80-0226 from the 74th Fighter Squadron. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
A-10C 79-0172 from the 74th Fighter Squadron. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
A-10C 80-0226 from the 74th Fighter Squadron. 5 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
Ladder door art THE MISFIT - 75TH FIGHTER SQUADRON TIGERSHARKS of A-10C 80-0252 from the 75th Fighter Squadron, deployed as one of the eight replacement aircraft. 7 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey)
A-10C 80-0252 from the 75th Fighter Squadron, deployed as one of the eight replacement aircraft. 7 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
A-10C 80-0252 from the 75th Fighter Squadron, deployed as one of the eight replacement aircraft. 8 March 2009. (Photo by Martin Lacey) Full size
Special thanks to Martin Lacey for his permission to post his unique and very rare pictures on Warthog News!
Please await further related background info.
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