https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029658938

Is it because tRump never ordered it?

Puerto Ricans are lazy, that's what community is for, or some shit.

The military has the skills. And the equipment.

according to sTrumpet.

He's going nuts that the army isn't deploying helicopters. Can't understand it at all.

Air drops are how we fed people during the Berlin Aiirlift. And Berlin is quite a bit farther than Puerto Rico. We managed to figure out those logistics---and that was before the internet.

The Airlift used Tempelhof Central Airport in the American sector, and RAF Gatow in the British sector, as arrival airfields. They landed full, offloaded their cargo (neither a C-47 nor a C-54 has a ramp, so they were dealing with bulk cargo instead of palletized freight) and returned empty.

There was one huge difference between then and now, and it's our leadership. If Trump would have been in office in 1948, all of Berlin would have gone to the Soviets because Trump doesn't give a fuck about anything but his own personal enjoyment.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/german-history/berlin-airlift

Certainly many of the planes came from England, and many planes actually landed in Berlin, but supplies were also dropped by parachute.

My relatives in Eastern Europe told me about drops of Red Cross supplies by parachute containing food that sustained them. They told me the one thing they did not know what to do with was peanut butter---they had never seen it before and had no idea how to prepare it. So like good Eastern Europeans, they fried it!