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customerserviceguy

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12. The military loves these excercises

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Apr 14, 2014, 07:14 AM

Apr 2014

They train to look for subs and cargo that may have been lost at sea, this is way more than just a training excercise, it's hero status for whichever country's military finds this plane.

However, nobody's going to search in Iran, and that's where I think it is, if not Pakistan...

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Flight 370 search expense to the public [View all] SHRED Apr 2014 OP

It's not about recovering bodies it's about recovering what happened to the aircraft oneofthe99 Apr 2014 #1

Finding the cause is the reason. Not the people. nt Logical Apr 2014 #2

they need to take all reasonable efforts to find out what happened to that plane Skittles Apr 2014 #3

It's an important thing to do. Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #4

Good lord... what a waste. Agschmid Apr 2014 #6

It's worth the cost... Agschmid Apr 2014 #5

this isn't just about getting the body, you know how your friend died, we have no idea why this JI7 Apr 2014 #7

Oh I complain about other spending too... SHRED Apr 2014 #8

Unless new people were hired SevenSixtyTwo Apr 2014 #9

It's not costing that much, in the larger scheme of things frazzled Apr 2014 #10

Marginal additional cost probably isn't that great onenote Apr 2014 #11

The military loves these excercises customerserviceguy Apr 2014 #12

I agree with what others have said davidpdx Apr 2014 #13