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THE MICHIGAN Air National Guard’s 127th Wing has revealed details of a quite extraordinary incident involving one of its A-10C Thunderbolt IIs (80- 0264/’MI’) operated by the 107th Fighter Squadron ‘Red Devils’ at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan. The aircraft had taken off from Selfridge on the afternoon of July 20 for a routine training flight to the nearby Grayling Air Gunnery Range. It was one of a flight of four A-10Cs making the 30-minute flight to drop practice bombs and perform strafing runs with the type’s 30mm GAU-8 Avenger ‘Gatling’ gun.