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Best_man23

(4,890 posts)
2. We should at least use our air lift assets to get people out of there
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 09:51 PM
Sep 2017

When the earthquake happened in Haiti I was living in Orlando near one of the airports. The Air National Guard used the airport to bring the sick and injured over from Haiti so they could get medical care. There were C-17s landing and taking off almost every hour of the day and night for weeks.

They can use these big cargo planes to bring food, water, and fuel in, then transport people out.

dubyadiprecession

(5,620 posts)
4. It's a sad time we live in, If we have to help the authorities in FEMA and the Puerto Rican
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:05 PM
Sep 2017

government figure out how to do their jobs. What is this amateur hour?!

They should have had a plan in place beforehand!

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