yes, I saw that..it’s a charter company.
All I can think is that Trump chartered the planes.
There are a lot of holes in that story. I was there with the First Infantry Division, the Big Red One out of Fort Riley. I deployed in December 1990, after our train up, and redeployed in May 1991. The part about a battalion sitting around all day on duffel bags for four days waiting for buses is fantasy (or a really selective memory). Redeployment took time because we had a lot of troops over there, not because no one had thought to charter aircraft. By the way politicians don’t do that, once DOD gets the mission it plans all phases of the operation. Units, including this guys battalion were billeted in Khobar Towers, when they were scheduled to move out to the airfield they would go to a staging area and get moved to the airfield in a couple of hours. The idea that people sat out for four days with their gear is preposterous. Regarding Trump chartering aircraft from Tower Air, again B.S. Tower Air was the charter air line used by the Army throughout the later Cold War to move troops to and from Europe on REFORGERS and the Middle East on Bright Star, etc. They were contracted by the government for all of those operations including Desert Shielf/Storm. The idea that Trump or any other private individual paid out of pocket to do this is ridiculous. I was a fairly senior officer during Desert Storm and I would know if this happened. There’s a lot of stuff posted on some websites, often to accomplish an agenda. It’s not always true. It bothers me that people would make stuff up that makes the leadership of the military look incompetent in order to make any politician look good.