Troops Photo Op: Welcome Home, Warthog Daddy! By Mark Thompson Nov. 15, 2011 Share Read Later Send to Kindle Adeline Morash welcomes her father, Major Craig Morash, home to Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, following his six-month deployment to Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, on Oct. 11. Major Morash flies an A-10 Thunderbolt II – like that one behind him – although all know the plane, designed to protect troops on the ground with its powerful cannon, affectionately as the Warthog. Air Force photo by Jamal D. Sutter