Yeah, I don't disagree with that statement. I guess my previous post was more in the line of "if I was king for a day" WRT the MC being involved in this mission,. Especially since they've long shed the H-53 and H-46s, and no longer do any OT work.I don’t think if you get rid of HMX you get those people back. I think the USMC budget just gets cut by that amount of billets.
It's obviously an incredibly important mission. The downsides are the fact that they basically get first dibs on pilots regardless of other fleet needs, and same/same for parts. It is what it is...