Posted on 10/31/2018 7:39:09 AM PDT by Freeport
My ROTC roommate got a combat jump out of that. He never lets me forget it.
It was back in ‘69 or ‘70 that we were sitting not far from shore just east of Quang Tri or thereabouts and got a request for a couple of star shells over a set of coordinates. This was around 0130 or so and it was clear with moon down. A couple of minutes later we fired the first 5”/38 star shell and after the parachute deployed, I swear that damn white phosphorus lit up the beach for 20 minutes or so in about a mile radius. We fired a few HE rounds after that and then shot another star shell. A minute or two after the second one lit up the landscape, a Spooky came in and was over the target for a few turns just spittin’ those cones of death. Wish I had a movie camera.
All of this should be filmed and aired on tv and internet. Thousands of troops and materiel being loaded on massive C17, C130, and C5 cargo planes.
Later, tanks, Humvees with mini-guns, and soldiers carrying rifles lined up along the border.
Intimidation.
Vertically or Horizontally?
Leave the C-130s at the border to ship the mob back to where they came from.
64 fully equipped paratroopers, maybe a hundred Hondurans.
C-141's could take about 200. C-5's don't have many seats to buckle people in for takeoff and landing. You could probably could squeeze 500 people sitting on the floor, but they wouldn't do that, unless they were evacuating people in the face of imminent death.
So figure 100-200 per plane. With a few days notice, TRANSCOM could flow in enough aircraft to fly this caravan to Honduras in one day. A few dozen aircraft.
More likely, they would flow out gradually over several days, as they are processed.
Border Patrol routinely apprehends about 1,600 illegal crossers per day, so a few flights per day from Texas, Arizona and California could be run on a routine basis, if the policy was immediate repatriation.
If the legal stuff is taken care of, the logistics would be pretty routine. People would stop coming pretty quick if this was implemented, and fewer flights would be needed.
The military ground troops could build a string of collection points and temporary detention facilities near the border and at the airbases, lay in some concertina and concrete barrier for the Border Patrol in a month, and re-deploy the ground troops before Christmas - handing over operation to the border patrol.
GREAT IDEA!
We provide shelter, food, medicine & English/Americanization.
They work 50 hours a week building the wall for two years.
Then they go to front of the legal immigration line.
Same size as Vietnamese, a old C-130 .....from experience, april of 75. About 240 plus or minus a few. Of course thats standing with no baggage, nuts ta butt’s etc ... my swag only .
A lot ... if the safety harnesses are forgone while in a steep climb over open water with the tail ramp open ...
80-100 MPs
Now that’s a great plan, thanks ****Gen. Beau Bo.
Good name for the operation.
Rounding them up in a very nice way...lol ...You got to love him!
palletize their azzes for easy drop shipping
Ping.
Time to get serious
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