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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe saved West Berlin with the Berlin air lift
So we have a model to use for Puerto Rico
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We saved West Berlin with the Berlin air lift (Original Post)
wasupaloopa
Sep 2017
OP
It's a sad time we live in, If we have to help the authorities in FEMA and the Puerto Rican
dubyadiprecession
Sep 2017
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dalton99a
(81,070 posts)1. You're assuming airplanes can fly over a very big ocean
A HERETIC I AM
(24,320 posts)3. You can't just drive trucks there, you know
Oh....er ....um...
Never mind
Best_man23
(4,890 posts)2. We should at least use our air lift assets to get people out of there
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.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)6. according to du, we cant do that.
srsly. i got trashed in 2 different threads for saying that.
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
government figure out how to do their jobs. What is this amateur hour?!
They should have had a plan in place beforehand!
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)5. With climate change upon us, they had better get their act together ASAP!