Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

I don't often cut videos slack for errors, but is this really an error or just an approximation? It's common to describe locations of things like military bases to civilians by reference to the closest large city. Nobody outside Louisiana has ever heard of Bossier City, but they have heard of Shreveport, so this helps them visualize the location. Most people think Andrews AFB is in DC when Camp Springs is actually further from DC than Barksdale is from Shreveport.
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USAF certainly preferred the F-105 over the A-7 for strike, but it ended up preferring the A-7 over the A-1 for Close Air Support, which is what it was bought for at the insistence McNamara to make the Army happy. The F-106 was not really an alternative to the F-4. The F-4 was adopted by USAF to fill an urgent need for a new tactical fighter. As a dedicated bomber interceptor for ADC the F-106 was unsuited for a role for which the F-4 was ready.
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@georgeburns7251 I don't believe USAF seriously considered acquiring the F-5 for service as a tactical fighter. They did the Skoshi Tiger combat evaluation to demonstrate its capability to the foreign market for which it had been developed. The F-5A was barely supersonic when clean, and it was no competition for the A-7 in terms of range, payload, or avionics. USAF already had one lightweight fighter with limited range and payload and I doubt they wanted another one. I'm sure there were pilots in the air force who wanted the F-5 instead of the A-7, but I have never heard that the service wanted that. Can you point to documentation?
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@privatepilot4064 The plane must have been quite a dog with the TF-30 because even with the TF41 I'm told its thrust/weight was not very impressive.
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@jcheck6 There is no comparison between the A-7 and the F-20, which are different types from different eras. You can compare the F-20 with the F-16, and when you do the reason for the F-20 not being wanted becomes evident.
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You said 7th Air Group, and then you said 7th Air Division. An Air Division was a subsidiary of an Air Force, such as the famous 8th Air Force. A group is usually a subsidiary of an Air Division or a Wing, and is labeled by the type of group, for example it might be called 7th Bombardment Group. Which level of organization did Brigadier General Cohen command? Thanks.
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@rapman5791 Well I've been to Barksdale more than once and I never heard of Bossier city, but I knew it was near Shreveport. So that actually supports my theory, Mr. local yokel.
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