Pretty simple. Virtually all Saudi oil refining infrastructure, to include the ARAMCO headquarters complex, along with about 40% of the nation's desalination capacity is located in the Eastern Provence of the country and well within range of virtually all of Iran's still huge remaining stockpile of ballistic missiles. Though they have Patriot batteries, their long range THAAD batteries are just beginning to arrive - the first was activated in July of last year. The few available deployable units we have are already in Israel.
Well there sorta is, when you take responsibility for your self stay fit eat right ,sleep right, take vitamins and supplements and avoid vacs. I have va gov, social med. for last resort emergencies like when a horse fell on me and broke my leg, but other than that, its sketchy. I have a cabinet full of crap they have issued me, from earlier times before I realized I need to take charge of me. (needs thrown out)
They are rapidly being phased out of service by the KC-46A Pegasus of which a hundred already have been delivered. Boeing used the basic 767 airframe as a starting point dramatically reducing typical acquisition time. Nevertheless, such a program is challenging - Boeing was awarded the program in 2011.
I don't avoid any necessary vaccines. Three decades in the Army and travel all over the Third world during and after should make anyone a believer. More recently, I have had a curious compulsion to avoid both shingles and pneumonia.
and so is the B -52 came online oh, I think in the 50s .has been up graded from 1 end to the other and is still sitting on the tarmac waiting for the call. They can still rock your world.
Not to mention the folks in Yemen who had already targeted the Saudi oil infrastructure in the past.
Same here and I do have the smallpox vaccine scar from my childhood. I am contemplating the shingles vaccine as well, I have seen a few guys that got shingles and were miserable.
