On December 12, 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285, a chartered Douglas DC-8 aircraft, crashed shortly after takeoff from Gander International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada. The flight was carrying 248 members of the 101st Airborne Division, returning home from a six-month peacekeeping mission in Sinai, Egypt, to Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Thanks for the sharing that event, that I suspect most not involved had forgotten or not heard about it before. Just curious though as to why you blame Carter, when Reagan was the president at that time.
I flew on the 10th. Carter, Sadat, and Begin did the Camp David Accords which begat the MFO. It has been a boondoggle from the beginning. We pay 99% of the funding. We got $.50 a day TDY while there. The Dutch got over $50 a day just for one example. A mini UN where American troops are under foreign command most of the time. The only thing the MFO does is keep the Egyptians from committing suicide by attacking Israel.