I don't know who you are, but Carry_Okie and others on this forum have done more than you can ever imagine...for YEARS....to help with finding answers to the wildland fire problem. I suggest you get more familiar with a private site, it's rules, etc. before you attack someone who was trying to be gracious to you. You just lost ALOT of support. What a shame.
This problem you have with the IL-76 and the
US Forest Service is _A LOT_ bigger than Carrie
and it's _A LOT_ bigger than you and me.
+ I'm a lot nicer in person than I am on a chatline
but you need to realize, Auntie, that we are at war
with wildfire.
Winston Churchill had an awful public row (like the
US' famous Billy Mitchell had a row) with military
people who wanted to use small/medium bomber aircraft
in WWII.
In sidelining the generals who favored smaller bombers, Churchill was criticised for being nasty. He replied to Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the RAF:
"You know, in war you don't have to be nice, you only have to be right."
If you and Carrie not part of the war effort against
wildfire, that's OK.
In the early going, we were nice to everyone until
they started lying to us and giving us the old
bureaucratic runaround, which is what Carrie's up to.
And furthermore, Auntie Dear, you need to
know this is not the first time the USFS
has been in trouble while the whistleblower
got the shaft:
The US Forest Service C-130 scandal:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/hall/exclusive.shtml
It's part of the culture in USFS aviation, perhaps?