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- From: dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: B2s v. carrier task force
- Message-ID: <C1D8r3.ACA@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 16:06:38 GMT
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- From Don Palmrose <dpe@inel.gov>
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- In article <C17w89.FrF@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Gary Coffman <gary%ke4zv.uucp@mathcs.emory.edu> writes:
- >
- > 5) Logistic transport.
- > This remains a vital mission of the Air Force. In today's rapidly
- > developing military situations, the ability to rapidly deploy
- > troops and war material to remote areas is increasingly important.
- > And on today's high intensity battlefields, rapid *resupply* is
- > essential to continued conduct of operations. While pre-positioned
- > naval transport can meet some needs, a vastly upgraded air transport
- > system is badly needed.
- > Gary
- > --
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- It is important to remember that if Desert Shield/Storm depended solely on
- the Air Force to transport supplies, we would still be there today. While
- there was a literal "highway in the sky" from the US to Saudi Arabia, when
- the first fast sealift ships arrived after about 30 days into Desert Shield,
- it had brought more tons of supplies *than the entire Air Force effort to
- that day*!!!! Once the sealift was in high gear, the Air Force transportation
- effort paled by comparison. Bottom line: Air Force can deliver the troops
- fast, but their heavy equipment and supplies still must arrive by sea.
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- The US military sealift capacity is in more of a need of improvement than the
- Air Forces' air transport system.
-
- Don Palmrose
- "There are only two kinds of ships.... Those that project power onto shore
- and those that either protect or support the power projectors."
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