Khowst, or California?
The Hayman fire is close enough to my house that I'm a little nervous myself. Still, I'd rather have A-10's delivering fire in Afghanistan than putting fires out, even in Colorado.

It is inexcusable that "[T]he end of the Cold War mothballed over 200 of these aircraft " (I almost said "inconceivable," but that does not mean what I think it means).