it'll never end till the boy is gone... maybe not even then
Posted on 06/19/2014 4:26:59 PM PDT by BBell
Soldiers in a Louisiana National Guard unit that deployed last year for a construction mission in Kuwait returned home from Texas on Wednesday, after a 15-hour bus ride that was arranged because no airline would provide a charter flight. Some of the soldiers in the 1021st Engineer Company arrived at Jackson Barracks, greeted by family and friends.
The 1021st is based in Covington and has detachments in Independence and Gonzales. The company sent 160 soldiers to Kuwait. They returned to the United States earlier this month for post-deployment training at Fort Bliss, near El Paso
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Paperwork?
Nyaaa.. But who knows.
The IRS can’t even track its own emails.
How far we have come.
Now ya know how the incas felt at the end.,
Damn global warming
Get over it!!
Don’t you know that space is for all of the illegal immigrants?
The Army’s airplanes are, by law, only two engine executive types that carry maybe a dozen or so passengers. No cargo or airliner types. only the Air Force can have the big 4 engine planes
One unit would have been going to MSY, the other to AEX and while ELP is called an International Airport, as is AEX they aren’t hub airports....hell, not even a spoke....maybe a valve stem airport. Anyhow you ain’t gettin’ from El Paso to New Orleans, or Alexandria. From Atlanta, or Dallas yup!
That said, I doubt it was an airline issue. More likely an REMF logistical clerk issue from Ft. Bliss.
Troops from my neck of the woods fly into Barksdale AFB.
Have you flown much lately? My dozen or so flights over the last 2 months have, with one exception where a 757 was substituted for a MD80, been packed.
it'll never end till the boy is gone... maybe not even then
Trying to make it look like the airlines’ fault. Nonsense.
It took the airlines many decades, but they’ve finally figured out how to fill up the human cattle car and make some dough.
Now,who is "they"? Is it the Army or the airlines in question? As I suggested earlier the airlines didn't have any legal...or even moral...obligation to the soldiers.Was it that none of the airlines were able to accommodate the Army with the proposal they were given? Too little $$$? Too little notice? Too many soldiers to accommodate at that particular time? I honestly don't know.
But I agree with you that regardless of who's "responsible" it's quite disgraceful that these soldiers were subjected to this.
Active Duty ping.
wait a second... what happened to McGuire AFB? I remember goingbthere to pick up a neighbor’s kid returning from Germany... there were transports coming and going everywhere out of there, so it seemed.
“The country I loved is virtually gone.”
Probably still there, and, based on the guns/ammo purchased by white Americans - they are preparing to deal with the troubles seen approaching.
Tiger Airlines....the plane we got off of in Anchorage refueled and headed back to Japan with military and dependents ended up crashing right after takeoff. October 1963. One of the most costly in lives air disasters in US history. We noticed one of the prop engines smoking and spewing sparks before we sat down in Anchorage coming from Midway. Our flight to Travis AFB from Anchorage on a separate aircraft was quiet. The pilot announced over the intercom what had happened to the airplane we had just disembarked and left.
Can’t belive these troops did not know how to play the game.
All one had to do at any air line was state I am gay or I am a muslim and they would have been given First Class accomodations.......
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