CTR wrote:
Maybe the Marines can just buy one off the lot? They may not get the
color they want though. Seriously, even if funding was made available
today, it would take almost two years to produce a helicopter. In the
mean time V-22s will be comming on line to fill the need,

Read the article please.

As usual in this war our troops are searching through junkyards to find the
tools for war.

Also the V-22 will not lift as much as the CH-53E does.

http://www.wral.com/apncnews/4878005/detail.html

-HJC