[Vaquero]

C-5’s are a maintenance nightmare and do not have access to large parts of the world due to runway construction. C-130’s are just to slow...

OK...well that sounds like a reason to continue it.

I do not know any more than I see on the Military Channel. I was just floating the possibilities....and I was also bringing up the point that even rock ribbed conservative presidents....(we only have had one in the past century or so and he was Reagan)...have cut back on what was construed as duplication or waste....

just saying....that's all.

[mad_as_he$$]

Remember C-141’s were scrapped and the 17 was suppose to be their replacement. In addition, the amount of stuff now required to support a soldier in the field has skyrockted from the VN era. Moving bottled water alone is a monumental task.