Posted on 08/20/2021 7:56:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CORRECTION: A @usairforce
C-17 Globemaster III safely transported 823 Afghan citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport Aug. 15, 2021. This is a record for this aircraft.
The initial count of 640 inadvertently included only adults. 183 children were also aboard.
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Is it a US plane if it carried 800 afghani military men?
Meanwhile US citizens are left to ESAD.
I hope they had plenty of toilet paper.
Oh Wait.
I think the Afghans believe CH:183 to be an Afghan abbreviation for GOATS.
While Americans are left.
The plane was so full people were falling out of the wheel wells
When one of the passengers asked “where’s the toilet?”, was he told “you’re in it”?
823 Taliban agents.
How much money will 823 suck up in a year before they start breeding like rabbits
I wish we knew what the condition of that plane was once it landed. Some poor grunt must have been ordered to clean it as punishment. I bet that they had to use hoses because that many people on a plane for that long with far too few bathrooms.
Now these USAF aircraft are barely loaded and the State Department is now charging $2000 per flight for....... Americans.
I think they torched it
Typical. Children don’t count as people in some parts of the world.
For the same reason, I’m astonished women were included in the initial number.
The FAA would have never let this aircraft get airborne. Thank God in Heaven...the aircraft did not have a serious technical takeoff incident...which could have killed all folks and children on board a severe overloaded aircraft, because they would have died trying to get out of the “packed” aircraft!!! SAD!!! This Biden gig is bad news, from A_Z!!! The Aviation Media should be questioning this action by the Biden, military airlift folks!!!
The plane wasn’t under fire when it took off.
I’ll get flamed when I write this, but I feel I must.
The airfield controllers and the pilot of the plane need to be under arrest and held for a court martial. As well as whoever gave the order to get that plane in the air. There was no obvious reason for the runway and aircraft to not be secure and cleared prior to take off. Civilians were killed as a direct consequence of a non combat order. This borders on a war crime. Believe me, I don’t like the conclusion I came to. It’s a major stain on the US Air Force.
There was only one on the aircraft...can only imagine what the cargo hold smelled like after the flight. All of the loadmasters deserve the DFC for that one...
The Commander in Chief is non compos mentis at best, and actively malevolent towards Americans in Afghanistan, civilian and military, at worst. I blame anything out of order that happens over there on Mr. Slow Joe first and foremost.
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