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In 1990 an effort to develop better camouflage for Desert Storm aircraft an A-10 from 917th TFG, 47th TFS from Barksdale AFB was selected. Given a 3 tone brown paint job it became known as the “Peanut Scheme”. The pattern proved unacceptable so 76-0552 was repainted in the usual grey but never went to Desert Storm. Based at Aviano Air Base, Italy from 1993 - 1996 the 47th flew 501 sorties as part of the NATO peacekeeping effort in Bosnia-Herzegovina.