CNN - US drops 1500 gallons of water to those trapped people in Iraq.

[applegrove]

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This is on you USA.

[sufrommich]

1. Does anyone here know how that is actually done?

How do we drop food,medicine,water,etc?

[jberryhill]

3. like this

C-17 Supply Air Drop (2012):

[aikoaiko]

5. Now that is logistics.

[sufrommich]

8. Thank you for that. I imagined huge crates

crashing to the ground.Parachutes,duh.

[KT2000]

16. That's really something

to be proud of!!

[certainot]

18. notice how the crew wears parachutes. if a paul ryan was in charge they would save

money on parachutes. except for the one he was wearing in the top deck cocktail lounge.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Here's a vid of a C-17 doing a supply drop;

Go to the 3:00 mark for the actual drop

[applegrove]

6. Transport planes escorted by fighter jets. Dropped lots of bundles of

food and other stuff too. But the water is the most important.

[stevenleser]

7. The videos give you an idea. This is the responsibility of the Air Force's Air Mobility Command

AMC is one of the Air Force's major commands. One of AMC's jobs that they spend a lot of time training for is transporting supplies and people all around the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mobility_Command

Edited to include this video of AMC:

[sufrommich]

10. Interesting,thanks. nt

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Unfortunately, they did it like this;

[IronGate]

9. Now that's the way to extinguish a vehicle fire.

[ripcord]

14. That was the first thing that came to my so called mind

but of course I'm warped.

[Liberal_in_LA]

11. excellent

[rhett o rick]

12. Drop supplies and not bombs, plez. nm

[Uncle Joe]

13. Good!

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[conservaphobe]

15. I can't believe President Obama is being so evil. What a warmonger.

[Cleita]

17. I'm glad we are helping out in a good way, but it does make me ask the question as to why

we can't airlift these people to a place of safety if we can fly supplies to them?

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. Probably an impossible undertaking with tens of thousands trapped on that mountain.

Especially when its a mountain with thousands of bad guys with guns and rockets in the area. I also doubt there is a safe air strip anywhere close, so slow moving choppers that are easy targets would be the only way.