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To: Tulsa Ramjet
Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops who are in the fight each day need to be resupplied with ammunition, food and water.”

I don't know if the above is bullshit, but from the father of a Marine at a base so far our in the boonies that there were weeks in between helicopter deliveries I might agree with it.
I'm not one to say if your kid has it and mine does not then your kid shouldn't either. I'm just saying if transports full of Pizza Hut supplies are taking up space that could have transported packages that at one point took two months to get to Northwest Afghanistan then screw the Pizza Hut crap.

70 posted on 03/26/2010 11:28:31 AM PDT by Recon Dad ( USMC SSgt Patrick O - 3rd Afghanistan Deployment - Day 157)
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To: Recon Dad

Thanks for making this point in a far more eloquent and rational way than I ever could.


81 posted on 03/26/2010 11:50:26 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark.")
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To: Recon Dad

The problem wasn’t access to Bagram, but moving it from Bagram to points beyond. Distribution inside Afghanistan sucks, but travel TO Bagram & Kandahar is easy.


99 posted on 03/26/2010 12:41:18 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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