The United States’ tawdry, hopelessly mishandled withdrawal matters to the entire Western community because it has grim humanitarian consequences, Islamists have gained a base of operations and our global competitors are emboldened.
Dumbkirk Biden!:
Posted on 08/22/2021 8:56:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered six commercial airlines to provide passenger jets to help with the growing U.S. military operation evacuating Americans and Afghan allies from Kabul, the Afghan capital, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
Mr. Austin activated Stage 1 of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, created in 1952 after the Berlin airlift, to provide 18 airliners to help ferry passengers arriving at bases in the Middle East from Afghanistan, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement.
The current activation is for 18 planes: four from United Airlines; three each from American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines and Omni Air; and two from Hawaiian Airlines.
The Pentagon does not anticipate a major impact to commercial flights, Mr. Kirby said.
Capt. John Perkins, a spokesman for the military’s Transportation Command, said on Sunday that the commercial airliners would begin service on Monday or Tuesday and that they would fly evacuees both from the Middle East to Europe and from Europe to the United States.
Captain Perkins said in a telephone interview that the military had requested wide-bodied, long-haul aircraft capable of carrying several hundred passengers. He said that discussions started with the airlines last week and that some carriers had volunteered planes for the evacuation. But, he added, the demand was great enough for Mr. Austin to order more airlines to honor their obligations under the reserve fleet program.
Civilian planes would not fly into or out of Kabul, where a rapidly deteriorating security situation has hampered evacuation flights. Instead, commercial airline pilots and crews would help transport thousands of Afghans who are arriving at U.S. bases in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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Why not the straight ones too?
The United States’ tawdry, hopelessly mishandled withdrawal matters to the entire Western community because it has grim humanitarian consequences, Islamists have gained a base of operations and our global competitors are emboldened.
Dumbkirk Biden!:
Jack Posobiec
Civil Reserve Air Fleet is just for headlines and Biden knows it. Plenty of mil aircraft. Commercial airliners don’t even have midair refuel capability. Slows down and endangers operations just for clicks.
How many days later????? What was he, asleep this whole week and suddenly on Friday woke up>????
“ The Afghan jihadi invasion is in full swing.”
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Why not fly them to Pakistan? Or to other Muslim countries?
Since when is the Taliban letting anyone into the airport, they surrounded it and shut down immediately. Propaganda for propagandas sake...
As planned by Soros and V Jarrett , with the help of their Obama Black American hating Gen Austin .
Flood the heartland with illiterate Muslim savages for the midterms . Can they get a million here by the month end . The plan is 300,000 so far.
why commercial?
helps with the PAYOFFs of $2000 to the first PedoResident?
The airlines contractually pledge aircraft to the various segments of Civil Reserve Air Fleet, ready for activation when needed. To provide incentives for civil carriers to commit aircraft to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program and to assure the United States of adequate airlift reserves, the government makes peacetime airlift business available to civilian airlines that offer aircraft to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Department of Defense offers business through the International Airlift Services. For fiscal year 2005, the guaranteed portion of the contract was $418 million. Air Mobility Command (AMC) previously reported that throughout fiscal 2005 it planned to award more than $1.5 billion in additional business beyond the guaranteed portion of the contract.
To join Civil Reserve Air Fleet, carriers must maintain a minimum commitment of 40% of its Civil Reserve Air Fleet capable passenger and cargo fleet. Aircraft committed must be US registered, and carriers must commit and maintain at least four complete crews for each aircraft.
Carriers with aircraft whose performance does not meet minimum Civil Reserve Air Fleet requirements are issued a certificate of technical ineligibility so they can still compete for government airlift business.
As of June 2014, 24 carriers and 553 aircraft are enrolled in CRAF. This includes 517 aircraft in the international segment with 391 in the long-range international section and 126 in the short-range international section. There are 36 aircraft in the national segment. These numbers are subject to change on a monthly basis.[1][needs update]
Aviation safety is the paramount concern, and numerous procedures are in effect to ensure that the air carriers with which AMC contracts afford the highest level of safety to Department of Defense passengers. Prior to receiving a contract, all carriers must demonstrate that they have provided substantially equivalent and comparable commercial service for one year before submitting their offer to fly for the Department of Defense. All carriers must be fully certified Federal Aviation Administration carriers and meet the stringent standards of Federal Aviation Regulations pertaining to commercial airlines (Part 121). - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Reserve_Air_Fleet
Goodbye America. It was great while it lasted. Thanks to all of you Trump haters. Hope you like having you daughters raped and grandchildren deal with these stone aged f-wits
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LOL.
I had the same idea. Will the planes be a Fairy Ferry?
Afghanis/Taliban coming to America fly first class, Americans get beheaded in Kabul. Biden /0bama this.
Leaving US citizens to fend for themselves; pay a fee to be rescued.
From the same Obama people who gave us the ISIS caliphate.
That is exactly what should have happened. Or if not nuclear then as big a conventional bomb as possible.
Twenty years ago an officer being deployed to the Middle East “explained” to me that it was not an American war against Islam.
Told him, “That’s right. It is Islam’s war against America.”
He seemed to understand, maybe even agree. How unfortunate it has been that the people at the top refused to accept the fact that it was, and remains, Islam’s war against America.
Rapes , riots , and robbing coming to your town for the midterms thanks to V Jarrett and Soros. Close the Catholic or Lutheran charity refugee invasion center in your town to save it .
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