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To: Wright is right!
It's pretty clear that there isn't much airlift capacity (most of Desert Storm AND Iraq Freedom went by ship).The USAF cannot even airlift 1 "heavy division". The 82nd Airborne Division alone requires over 1,500 C-141B sorties.
13 posted on 08/04/2003 12:37:53 PM PDT by Yasotay
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To: Yasotay
The 82nd Airborne Division alone requires over 1,500 C-141B sorties

What C-141Bs? Some have already been retired. The active duty fleet is scheduled to be retired by late this year or early next year. Guard and Reserve will get the "low mileage" birds, but will retire those by end of 2006, according to current plans. Some C-141 units have already stood down over the past year or two.

17 posted on 08/04/2003 4:59:30 PM PDT by El Gato
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