To: ArneFufkin
Could be anything...repair parts, munitions, or whatever is needed. OTOH, it could just be part of its mission on a run back to CONUS to pick up something else.
Normally, they would evac patients on a jet that has been rigged to for that job. C-130 takes too long and besides, they're needed in theater for trash hauling.
24 posted on
04/02/2003 3:36:53 PM PST by
damper99
To: damper99
Normally, they would evac patients on a jet that has been rigged to for that job. My buddy is a flight medic on a C-17. According to him they do fast switches in the confiquration for whatever the mission calls for.
26 posted on
04/02/2003 3:42:06 PM PST by
Gamecock
(IF YOU HAVE TO BE ONE, BE A BIG RED ONE! No Mission too Difficult! No Sacrifice too Great!)
To: damper99
The ONLY reason I bring it up is that I saw that there was an ongoing transport of personnel, artillery, mechanized assets and Abrams from Kuwait City to a north Iraqi airport yesterday using C-17s and C-130s. I love Jessica, but we could have put her on a Gulfstream. Those Globarstars can move a M1A1 from Kuwait to the doorstep of Saddam's gonads, and that seems like a better use for a short takeoff/landing specialized behemoth.
We shouldn't be shipping stuff from Germany on a C-17, we can send it via C-5 or just put it one of the 38 FRIGGING freighters the 4th ID required for their entourage.
To: damper99
C-17 also was designed for takeoff and landing on bare base airfields. Short takeoff aircraft.
29 posted on
04/02/2003 3:47:14 PM PST by
noutopia
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