Charlie Keebaugh
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He got interviewed after he landed, and they said, Mr. President, what do the people in the storm states need?
And his response was, what storm?
He said, I'm trying to remember what storm you're talking about.
Are you serious?
And then he said, oh, they have everything they need.
We're very happy.
They have everything they need.
Quote, word for word.
What's frustrating is we just fought a 20-year war in Afghanistan.
We have the people, we have the equipment, we have the experience to get things and resources into hard places.
Every military crew that we saw, we would ask them, do you have a sling load kit?
No sling load kit.
I think we heard of one sling load operation that happened.
No sling load kit?
Yeah, no.
So if you have the people, the equipment, and the experience to go do it, why aren't you doing it?
Because someone has to make that decision.
Tell them what the guy told us yesterday from Fort Bragg.
Oh, yeah.
So we ran into an 82nd Airborne guy, and we were excited.