"We can't be there yet"...why the MV-22 is a war winner!

This from SLDInfo.com...

SLD: You had an anecdote, which underscores the impact of speed in the battlespace?

Major Lee York: We took some soldiers out to the West of Iraq. The crew chief comes up to us and tells us that the guys won’t get out of the plane.  We’re like, what are you talking about?  They said we’re not there yet. And we said, “What are you talking about?”  He then said, “The last time we did this flight it took an hour and a half.  We’ve only been in the plane for 40 minutes so we can’t be there yet.”

“The last time we did this flight it took an hour and a half.  We’ve only been in the plane for 40 minutes so we can’t be there yet.”

We told him to tell the Marines that “we were cruising at 230 rather than at 120 so we were there. I swear we’re here, you know, we’re not going to send him somewhere where he is not supposed to be.”