They were also all gray in the Before Time.
When they first released in the late '70s they were all gray, I was a bomb loader at DM at that time. When they started deploying them to England and other places in the European Theater, they went to the Green Woodland paint. During that time, the A-10 primary mission profile, (to the best of my knowledge), was low and slow and the green paint helped it blend in to the surroundings even in flight.
After the fall of the Soviet Threat, and during the 1rst Gulf War, (I think it was about that time), the mission profile changed to a medium altitude attacks, and the Gray paint worked better at those altitudes to allow the Hawg to blend into the sky. They've been Gray ever since.
Jack, to the best of my knowledge, the ones at DM anyway, were never painted green. I think that the green paint jobs were only for the European bases, or places were there was lots of green. The only green ones I'd ever seen at DM were the ones, fresh from the factory, on their way to Bentwaters, or that base in Louisianna, (forgive my old brain, I can't remember the name of that base). Most of the birds destined for those bases passed through DM on the way. Those Dark Green birds really stood out like a sore thumb on that ramp.
