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It isn’t like they couldn’t have flown them out despite the maintenance or other excuse. Puzzling unless you think it is possible that they were left there to be destroyed, in need of replacement. Government insured? Is there such a thing as government insurance?

It might be time (actually there have been many previous times) to ask (from someone) for an actual argument as to why appropriations continue when (at least in this case) it is glaringly obvious that NO thought is given to taking care of current resources? If one has resources (in this case very costly resources) in a hurricane prone area wouldn’t one have a plan to safeguard, or at least secure in some way, those resources? In this case it might be worth asking a series of questions. Was there a plan? If so, then we’d like to see the plan. If so, then why was it not carried out (and from whom or where did the order come to leave the planes where they were)? If there was no plan, then why was there no plan?

As of 2009 the unit cost (according to Wiki) was 150 million (probably a low figure) and supposedly there were 187 operational aircraft built. If there were in fact 17 of these aircraft damaged by the hurricane that number would account for just slightly over 9% of the total number of aircraft. 17 x 150 million = 2,550,000,000. Hmmmmm. Or in the supposed (Dirksen claimed the – pretty soon, you’re talking real money – part was added by a reporter) words of Everett Dirksen, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”