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To: Pete Dovgan

No good? Then what the hell were they doing in a war zone? If that’s true, they should have flown out by the fools who sent them there in the first place.


27 posted on 08/19/2021 7:14:11 PM PDT by Torahman (Remember the Maccabees)
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To: Torahman

The ran just fine right up until the minute they were parked after evacuating embassy staff.


37 posted on 08/19/2021 7:24:50 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Torahman

They weren’t flown in under their own power. They were transported their by heavy lift aircraft. To be specific, usually contracted heavy lift Russian aircraft.

To remove them, they would have had to contract a large commercially available transport, loaded 1 or 2 at a time, and removed them.

Honest, those helicopters were end of life. The UH-60’s were brought in over the last 4 years to replace them for the state department. Probably cheaper, for the American people, to thermite grenade them in place, than to pay to fly them out and scrap them anyway.


57 posted on 08/20/2021 10:45:20 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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