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Best_man23

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2. We should at least use our air lift assets to get people out of there

Reply to wasupaloopa (Original post)

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.

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We saved West Berlin with the Berlin air lift [View all] wasupaloopa Sep 2017 OP

You're assuming airplanes can fly over a very big ocean dalton99a Sep 2017 #1

You can't just drive trucks there, you know A HERETIC I AM Sep 2017 #3

We should at least use our air lift assets to get people out of there Best_man23 Sep 2017 #2

according to du, we cant do that. mopinko Sep 2017 #6

It's a sad time we live in, If we have to help the authorities in FEMA and the Puerto Rican dubyadiprecession Sep 2017 #4

With climate change upon us, they had better get their act together ASAP! BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #5