The Air Force doesn't have enough planes to fly Stryker Force around the
world when it needs to go someplace? Since when did the Air Force have
a shortage of planes?

The Air Force has NEVER had enough transport aircraft to meet the requirements
it was tasked to fill. The two simultaneous war capability advertised during
the Clinton (?) years was so much baloney. Couldn't do it then, can't do it
now. The AF spends a "gajillion" dollars on fighters but not nearly as much on
the support aircraft needed to get the mechanics, supplies, etc. needed to
support those fighters to the same location.

THEN, there's the Army. On one occasion when I was in a C-141B airlift unit,
the Army wanted some heavy equipment moved from point A to point B. However,
when the AF transports arrived to load up, the equipment would no longer fit
(it used to fit though.) What happened? The Army had welded some additional
stuff on the outside of the equipment and it no longer would fit though the
cargo door of the transport.

Ed
"The French couldn't hate us any
more unless we helped 'em out in another war."
--Will Rogers



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