Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

One other thing, too, is when we look at the product, for example, the fighter base, you know, the F-35 are built by Lockheed in the United States.

The C-17 were built in the United States.

One other thing that we look at the final assembly line quite often is the number of aircraft that are actually being procured and also the business case.

But if we look, for example, in helicopters, Airbus is as a plant in Fort Erie that has been there since 1984.

And, you know, within, I think it was within even 42 or 72 hours, we had already launched our, after landing, had launched our first missions, which were DCA, defensive counter-air missions in the region over North Africa, Libya.

You know, like I said, before the bombs and the technicians arrived in the C-17, I remember the flight doc walking off the C-17 with a cooler and said like, hey, where's Hasno and Gogo, the CO? I think it was Gogo.

It's like, you guys are behind our immunizations.

Okay.

I'm like, late for what? And they're like, you're late to go home.

And I'm like, what? Still, yeah, pack your bags.

You got to get in the C-17.

So I like took all my stuff and I didn't have much stuff because I only had four hours notice or eight hours notice while I'm leaving.

Anyway, it's still going, the 729th.

And that unit now operates the mighty Globemaster III.

I didn't realize there was a Globemaster II as well, which they flew.

But now they're flying the Globemaster III.

Oh, how about that? You know what I just realized? What? That 729 is like, it's a coincidence.

It's also our show number.

This video here, there's a couple videos here, stunning images of El Salvadoran army paratroopers praying aboard a bus before departing for Haiti.

The soldiers were heading to the airport to board a C-17 Globemaster III bound for Port-au-Prince, where they will join GSF operations against the 400 Mawozo gang.

According to our contact, the contingent consists of 100 Special Forces personnel from three units, CEAT, the Paratrooper Battalion, and the Special Operations Group.

Among them travel the renowned Comandos Achas and Comandos Prales, shock troops with training comparable to that of Guatemala's Caibiles.

So the U.S. Air Force has the weapons school at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.

That's where all of the systems, F-15, F-16, C-17, you name it, that's where all those captains usually go through that school to become graduates.

And in the Air Force, it's called the patchwear.

They wear a special patch on their arm for the rest of their careers.