01-07-2008, 03:04 PM
By using the SF for the maui cleanup, thr guard has been able to move on the requested cleanup in record time and least ever expense.
The other optons are the landing craft, which are big long range beach loading vehicles, big, expensive and comparitavly slow and costly. Would have required some 5 C-17s, at a massive cost for a close, non emergency. In a true massive disaster they excell, screw the cost. You can be sure in a hurricane on Kauai, C-17 & Landing ships would deliver. They can't come near as cheap as SF and are maintained for emergencies, here and abroad!
The SF can't go to Big Island because they don't have docking facilities, and now even when they apply, an EIS will extend the time frame probalya year, any help would be an improvment. Ask any mariner, Kawaihae is a basket case. and without same, can't unload vehicles. Guard troops want to help, but cost is a factor. The SF could use military contracts to bolster their revenue especially until the public usage picks up this was written in their introductory statments.
If your worried about their storming the island in an invasion,it could happen but would use the landing craft, which are equiped to protect the landing (machine guns). This scenario would be to enforce the ban on destruction of the rain forest in the subdivision. The O'io, now endangered. All residents will be removed and reimbursed appraised value and improrovments to 50K, voluntarily or (see above). EPA, DLNR, WWF, PETA Sierra Club! Not Negotiable, a BAN.
That's the scenario I could see. I love that hawk but should the forementioned occur to protect it!
The other optons are the landing craft, which are big long range beach loading vehicles, big, expensive and comparitavly slow and costly. Would have required some 5 C-17s, at a massive cost for a close, non emergency. In a true massive disaster they excell, screw the cost. You can be sure in a hurricane on Kauai, C-17 & Landing ships would deliver. They can't come near as cheap as SF and are maintained for emergencies, here and abroad!
The SF can't go to Big Island because they don't have docking facilities, and now even when they apply, an EIS will extend the time frame probalya year, any help would be an improvment. Ask any mariner, Kawaihae is a basket case. and without same, can't unload vehicles. Guard troops want to help, but cost is a factor. The SF could use military contracts to bolster their revenue especially until the public usage picks up this was written in their introductory statments.
If your worried about their storming the island in an invasion,it could happen but would use the landing craft, which are equiped to protect the landing (machine guns). This scenario would be to enforce the ban on destruction of the rain forest in the subdivision. The O'io, now endangered. All residents will be removed and reimbursed appraised value and improrovments to 50K, voluntarily or (see above). EPA, DLNR, WWF, PETA Sierra Club! Not Negotiable, a BAN.
That's the scenario I could see. I love that hawk but should the forementioned occur to protect it!
Gordon J Tilley