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To: wardaddy
"How will they get troops there?"

Egypt has 22 C-130's, plus civilian transports available. Saudi has 30 C-130's plus numerous other transports. They can lift a lot of ground troops from Egypt to south Saudi pretty quickly, distance is not all that far, (500-600 miles).

Moving armor and heavy equipment would be slower, but maybe not so necessary.

60 posted on 03/26/2015 12:29:55 PM PDT by cookcounty ("Random Citizen:" ...ObamaSpeak for "Christian.")
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To: cookcounty

When I went to my FOB in February of 2003 it was a Saudi C-130 that flew me there. 6 hours over an ocean of sand.


73 posted on 03/26/2015 12:59:01 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: cookcounty

There are plenty of M1 tanks in Saudi and Egypt that are backed up by US maintenance teams. They will be able to run if they can find drivers. Saudi Armored units are well armed and have plenty of manpower, but they are lacking infantry because it is low status work. Also, the Saudis has lots of lowboys to haul tanks to the front lines, they have been doing it since 1991.


83 posted on 03/26/2015 2:23:39 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: cookcounty

Tks for info


86 posted on 03/26/2015 2:54:28 PM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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