re: #92 Targetpractice

That’s what never made sense about the “They called for help and none was sent” bit, that there were no troops sitting on alert, waiting for the call to come in to scramble to Benghazi. It takes time to get them all together, get their gear, get on the aircraft, and even begin the journey. Short of developing transporters in the near future, our response time to most such disasters is measured in hours or days, not minutes.

Wow. It takes TIME to respond to an alert? It takes TIME to figure out what’s happening? It takes TIME to figure out what would effective responses? It takes TIME to match those responses to the forces available? It takes TIME to alert the troop? It takes TIME for the troops to suit up? It takes TIME for to assemble the forces? It takes TIME to get those forces to wherever the problem is?

Wow. I never knew that.