This was another stain on the Jimmy Carter administration. What a dismal time. What an utter failure on every metric. In terms of societal psyche it was pretty damn bad.
Kind of reminds me of another administration….
What we were attempting had not been done since Vietnam. We needed to put Army Rangers, on Air Force helicopters, and have them take off and land from Navy aircraft carrier decks. There were different aircraft procedures between the Army and the Air Force, the Air Force pilots were not carrier-deck qualified, our radios didn’t talk.
The Marine pilots were carrier-qualified, but their aircraft did not have the same avionics as the Air Force helicopters. We were unable to mid-air refuel due to the lack of refuel booms. This forced us to land in the desert and refuel on the ground. The landing strip in the middle of the desert, called “Desert One,” had vehicle traffic at 0200 in the morning. We did not expect this. The Ranger security element encountered a fuel truck which was taken out by a light anti-armor weapon (LAW) when the truck failed to stop, and a bus full of passengers was detained on site.
Some aircraft were lost in a sandstorm called a Haboob and arrived late. When one of the aircraft went down for maintenance, the mission was scrubbed due to lack of lift and insufficient time to complete sorties, recover aircraft and continue to our remain overnight (RON) site. During refueling operations a helicopter was being guided into position off the nose of a C-130 full of fuel. The ground guide was pushed backwards by the prop-blast. The blowing sand created a “brown out,” and the helicopter moved forward towards the ground guide and clipped the C-130 with it’s rotor. The resultant explosion killed eight servicemen.
Jimmy Carter: peanut farmer supposedly trained by Admiral Rickover. Ended up completely unqualified as CINC.
Jimmy vs Jackass Joe –
Unqualified and incompetent is not the same as deliberate and treasonous.
“Why did it fail?”
Democrats. Same as always.
They’re like this…
https://youtu.be/mYvAYwpUDv8
AND YET, JIMMY IS AS DELUSIONAL AND WRONGLY OPINIONATED AS EVER
MAYBE THE PEANUT FARMER IS BEHIND THE CURTAIN
“PEANUT ONE, THIS IS PEANUT TWO, OVER”
Jimmy Carter, the malaise administration. Joe Biden DID meet a swamp rabbit the other day though.
I’m not sure but I think it was Shelly Berman who described the difference between Republicans and democrats as follows. Suppose you’re car is broken down on the side of the road. A Republican will drive right by in a much nicer car and sneer at your plight. A democrat will pull over to help, tell you how sorry and concerned they are with your problem and, in the process of trying to fix your problem, set your car in fire.
Jimmah Carter is further proof that only the good die young.
I was in at that time……..
Pepperidge Farm remembers………..
It was caused by the typical DC incompetence, mostly the DoD IMO. All the branches insisted on participating when it was clearly more of an Army/Air Force operation. They even had Coast Guard personnel involved. It was like the moronic diversity mindset… Everyone must be involved to make it “fair”.
I can never forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGxLakwCMA
TheMule
We were doing lot’s of Military contracts from first tier suppliers. The Military Budget had been cut to the bone. Repair stations were cannibalizing aircraft to keep what they could in the air. I remember that time well. So yea, all of the above.
^^^ ALSO UNDER JIMMY, ENLISTED QUALIFIED FOR FOOD STAMPS
PATHETIC
And we named a nuke sub after Carter why?
^^^^ WE ALSO NAMED A SHIP AFTER HARVEY MILK
Just imagine, if we had gender confused trannies in charge!?
We also named a nuclear submarine after the body of Christ.