Reply #6: Where Do You Put Them

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Florida has very little infrastructure to support a large influx of military personnel and their families, North Carolina may have Ft Bragg but most of the post consists of training areas, not well suited for families either.

And does anyone have any idea of how long it takes to move just one military family, take a guess at how long it will take to move 70,000
to 100,000 people. I know, I was active duty Army, and I am now married to a USAF Master Sergeant. The movement of one family is a major logistics nightmare, think of the chaos when it come to moving as many people as they say will be moving.

It took 15 days for the Army to get me from Hawaii, to Kentucky, and then to Saudi Arabia in the first Gulf War, and then another 3 days to get me to the unit I had been assigned to. 18 days total, and that was during the build up for the ground attack. I didn't have to arrange for movement of household goods, or to ship a vehicle, or to get plane tickets for my family.

So anyone who really believes that the military is going to be able to get 70,000 to 100,000 people back to the states by November is on drugs. And if anyone needs a good example of how effective the military is in getting things done, just look at how long it took them to get body armor issued to all the troops in Iraq.