Posted on 10/26/2004 6:28:23 PM PDT by BobKrumm
As a former armor officer Ive had the opportunity to supervise the loading of large amounts of ammunition and explosives on and off trucks. But never have I tried to move 380 tons, or three-quarters of a million pounds, of ammunition from one location to another. So I did a little math to see what it would take for a highly-organized and well-trained unit to move the quantity of explosives that was allegedly moved out of the Iraqi ammo depot 18 months ago.
It requires 30,400 armloads, at 25 pounds per armload, to move this amount of explosives. If you assume that one trip to the truck and back takes one minute (I timed myself from my living room to the end of my driveway and back at 59.6 seconds), then one man could load 1,000 pounds into a pickup truck every 40 minutes. That one man, assuming he worked 24 and 7 could load those trucks in slightly over 21 days.
I was making a point about size---you over-reacted.
If you don't like pointed replies--please don't post silly remarks.
LOL
Looks like the Long Island Railroad at rush hour......
Don't you mean Horsefeathers, from the old Marx Brothers Movie? If not, excuse my ignorance.
The big fat liar Mike Moore, could put it on his fat back and do it in half the time, but thanks for the effort you put into it.
There was never any explosives in that area, I swear to that. signed... Baghdad Bob, good friend of chemical Ali
No sweat...
Achmed and his brother Saeed, using his half-ton
Toyota, no doubt made 760 secret nighttime trips there,
so they wouldn't be noticed by our troops or predator drones.
The good news is that now that the scrawny pair has
loaded AND unloaded 380 TONS of stuff, they are ready
to take over Arnold Schwarznegger's former body building
business.
Ha! That's the first time you've ever accepted anything that didn't come covered in brown paper wrapping.:)
Yes, but the invention of transparent aluminum, with which such modifications could be made, was only first reported this year. Not in time to pull off Kerry's magic robbery. That spare Bird of Prey you have cloaked in your backyard wouldn't be enough. You'd also have needed Scotty and a Mac Plus to pull this off in time.
bump and thanks!
--If the men loading the trucks are union, you're gonna have to redo your numbers--
You get the coffee-through-the-nostrels and all over the keyboard award with that one.....
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