Are you pro or anti rebellion?
On the one hand it isn't totally rare to see brass buck Congress or a president, typically they have done so for mostly sound reasons. That being said, in light of the fact that the A-10 is a preeminent ground support system (ground pounders love what they can do) but fighter jocks find them unsexy...what is driving this defiance? Selfishness in pilots wanting something sexy...or a means to hamstring nation building designs of the Secret Society (which is the only Noble end I can see from this)?
The skeptic in me given latter day proclivities lands on selfishness.