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1 posted on 03/17/2011 6:17:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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2 posted on 03/17/2011 6:17:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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This is where we could make a real difference. If there is one thing that the US Military does better than anyone else in the world is logistics movement. And we have the equipment to make it work on short notice. Now we just need a leader in the CinC position to give the orders to start the machine in motion.
3 posted on 03/17/2011 6:40:55 AM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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Wow roads are gone, washed away and covered in boats, houses, cars , I wonder why it isn’t getting delivered yet?


12 posted on 03/17/2011 8:17:35 AM PDT by Freddd
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I have begun to wonder about the logistics issues in Japan. In the US we have the best logistics in the world, but others do not. Much of the logistics here are not government but are voluntary organizations.

There are a large number of organizations in the US which will chainsaw there way into a destroyed area with food and cooking equipment. One guy on the truck, the other with a 24” chainsaw clearing the path.

The grocery business has a an organization that is something to behold. Many warehouses are emptied immediately after a disaster and company trucks are put in motion. I was a part of that effort during Hurricane Hugo and it was stunning. Everything went onto the trucks, grocery stores loaded their short dated food onto our trucks and those trucks were sent. We, and others, had 280 (IIRC) trucks positioned on the West side of the Smoky Mountains as Hugo hit and when the winds died down to accepatble levels, they headed out. It was amazing. Mind you, the trucks were in motion before the hurricane hit.

I am not sure Japan has that type of logistical expertise.


13 posted on 03/17/2011 9:19:20 AM PDT by texmexis best
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