A really dumb question. Army Harrier Pilot

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Basically, it boils down to this: The US Army won't touch anything that's NIH*, while Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, despite their reputation as Jarheads, will use anything that works - and the Harrier works.

Even then, I don't know how many of them, if any, are in either war zone; as has been the case for many decades now, the USAF is pretty protective of their CAS role (not terribly good at it, at times, but a minor thing like that never stopped them from missing wider).

With the current state of the WoT, even birds they were planning on standing down (such as the A-10) have had their service lives extended indefinitely, and the USMC Harriers probably fall into that category too; but they may be holding them in reserve instead of expending airframes in combat which the fast movers can handle.


*Not Invented Here