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James48

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13. Can't happen

Reply to DemoTex (Reply #12)

Sat Sep 30, 2017, 05:45 PM

Sep 2017

During the Berlin Airlift we had thousands of airplanes and crews that could join the effort.

Today, we're in dozens of countries, and our personnel are less than a third in size to what they were in the 1960s and 70s.

We just don't have the personnel or equipment ready to do a whole another operation, Our Army is already pretty busy around the world...

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Can't get supplies from Fl to PR [View all] Sancho Sep 2017 OP

Trumps friends are trying to figure out a way to do this but profit from it, financially Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1

Sadly, that is probably truth! nt brer cat Sep 2017 #8

Disaster Capitalism.... pangaia Sep 2017 #18

Marc Cuban & Elon Musk Sedona Sep 2017 #2

A C-5 would do it. pangaia Sep 2017 #3

The CG station at Clearwater has 7 HC 130s and a dozen helicopters Sancho Sep 2017 #4

Yes, that CG station has a lot of nice Jayhawk helicopters Sailor65x1 Sep 2017 #10

Stop being such a downer dumbcat Sep 2017 #14

Don't forget the ruby slippers... Sailor65x1 Sep 2017 #20

C-5s are too heavy for any airport on the island Lee-Lee Sep 2017 #5

Well, it was a good thought, anyway... pangaia Sep 2017 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2017 #6

No it wouldn't Sailor65x1 Sep 2017 #9

Yeah, so I've been told.. Ah well.. pangaia Sep 2017 #16

There was a big Navy Seabee unit in PR years ago..... dawnie51 Sep 2017 #7

I'm not sure they are there amymore Sailor65x1 Sep 2017 #11

Pretty much no Navy left in PR since Roosevelt Roads closed Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #22

Berlin Airlift-type operation needed .. DemoTex Sep 2017 #12

Can't happen James48 Sep 2017 #13

"Our Army is already busy around the world.." pangaia Sep 2017 #17

You don't need thousands when dozens will do the same thing Brother Buzz Sep 2017 #19

The workhorse of the Berlin Airlift was the C-54 not the C-47 Lee-Lee Oct 2017 #21