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Originally Posted by wdmso
We can't get water and food to PR in 12 days .. but some making excuses on the why's it's taken so long. Are the same people who expected the government and the military to prevent the 4 deaths in benghazi in 13 hours it's only easy in the movies
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SO Navy stages three Gators their before the storm, starts prep. Then leaves to avoid the storm, comes back next day and starts moving gear. They start ramping up the Mercy (which takes 10 days I'm told) and getting hospital staff up and provisions which can't stay on ship. AF and guard units started prep to move down.
Side note, the Mercy Hospital ship was mostly excess and did very little in Katrina or Haiti earthquake.
Was it enough, fast enough? No. But is more than anything they've had to do in years. There was no infrastructure to move much of anything, roads are wiped out, little communications. The only way to move stuff was rotary wing and that does not move a lot.
But the Navy has less ships and manpower than since before WW2 and they are severely stretched as it is. But they still went.
Do they get an A? No. C+ ? Probably.
Maybe a C- when you put Trump's statements in.