gaddafi and the whole world, nato and the united states were saying ok, what is it we should do? you might find it interesting 26 ote that they sailed marine unit up from the red sea, suez canal and they turn left and went off the coast of libya and they sat there. so while we were all trying to figure out ok, the president was -- ok, what are we going to do? no-fly zone? nato? how are we going to do this? they actually were off the coast. during the first two days of the air war or the no-fly zone reenforcement, they were the only airplanes that were actually flying because we needed to get the tankers down from europe so we could tank the nato aircraft. so there's a great example of the flexibility those airplanes did. but you go back to o.i.f. one, the iraq war and i was a wing mmander, and we had 72, as i recall. we were flying them off two large deck amphibious ships and then we moved them ashore. i've got pictures of them on highway one just south of carballa, landing out there right after i had just met up with then colonel joe dunford who was the commanding officer. and i