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Old 10-15-2018 | 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by TED74
I'm sure none of it would be easy. But at $135M a pop, when we're already hundreds short of the quantity (I think) we need, I wish they had found a way.

I wasn't there and I don't know the details, but I've been in the military long enough not to trust that all the right decisions were made in advance of this historic storm.
It takes longer to crate a plane than the time you know the storm is coming. Just to get the hardware and shipping equipment can take months.