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Thread #104818   Message #2163031
Posted By: beardedbruce
03-Oct-07 - 04:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
Subject: RE: BS: It's official...... it was about oil
Bobert,

It really is NOT that difficult to actually check your figures...

"MCALESTER, Oklahoma - As U.S. bombs fall on Iraq, workers at America's pre-eminent bomb factory half a world away in the rolling hills of Oklahoma watch a TV set during their lunch break to see the results of their handiwork.

Run by the U.S. federal government, the McAlester Army Ammunition Plant (MCAAP) has been in operation since World War Two and has produced almost all of the estimated 13,000 bombs that have pounded Iraq."

You appear to be 770% high in your estimate... about normal for you.

Of course, claiming a "sortie" drops an average of 30 bombs every time might be the cause. Between photo recon and all those attacks with fighter/bombers that only carry 4-6 bombs, it takes a whole lot of area bombardment flights to bring the average up- and we didn't fly them.