We Told You So (Again). Portable shelters couldn't save 19 firefighters http://news.yahoo.com/portable-shelters-couldnt-save-19-firefighters-221842035.html However, M113 FireGavins COULD HAVE SAVED THESE 19 FIREFIGHTERS. combatreform.org/tafvfirefighting.htm

1. Air-Mechanized
GavinForce
FireFighting
TAKE-THE-FIGHT-TO-THE-FIRE!
Air-Mech-Strike Study Group 2008

2. TIME magazine photo essay
www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1674663,00.html
California is burning and losing lives and billions of dollars
in damage each year due to arid conditions and inadequate
linear firefighting...

4. All that fire needs is oxygen,
heat and fuel….it does not care
what direction it goes…it is
NON-LINEAR!
Anything in fire’s path that can be
used as fuel is at risk...

5. There’s plenty of fuel to feed a fire in California, America’s
most populated state of 45,000,000 people with not
enough water!

6. But plenty of wind (oxygen) to feed fires once started:
from the open southern Mojave desert to Sierra-Nevada
mountain down drafts!

7. If we try to fight fires What are we doing wrong?
LINEARLY along roads
with wheeled fire trucks,
the fires moving
non-linearly, CROSS
COUNTRY, will burn
too much fuel and pick
up too much heat for Fire Triangle
our fire breaks to stop
them….

9. We are letting too much heat build up by
letting fires burn to reach our fire break lines
(where we have cleared away possible fuel
sources)! We must not stand back and let
fires build!
The reason is
our wheeled
fire trucks cannot
go cross-country
to attack fires
directly to smother
their heat build-up.

10. The Time to Attack the fire is when it STARTS, so it doesn’t
build up too much heat!
Attack Here
Don’t Wait ‘Til Fire Reaches Here!

11. Too Much Heat!!!!
Wheeled Fire Trucks
too far away along
roads with little water and
no bulldozing capability
to clear out fuel sources
Too Little!!!
Homes not treated with
fire resistant coatings will not
resist catching on fire even if
doused before-hand with water!

12. Too Late!

13. How do we get to the Fire Early to Nip-it-in-the-Bud?
Men can be dropped off
by aircraft...
3D Men can WALK to
fires away from
road nets….
2D

14. But…they only bring
HAND TOOLS
with them to clear
away FUEL; they
cannot smother a
fire of its HEAT by
water or bulldozing
earth; if the wind
shifts (OXYGEN)
as they are doing
this they are fatally
exposed….
Is there an answer?
YES, there is.

15. The U.S. Army’s M113 Gavin Light Tracked Armored
Fighting Vehicle AKA: a “TANK”
An Air-Transportable, Low Ground Pressure (8 PSI) Tracked
Vehicle That Can go Cross-country to
TAKE-THE-FIGHT-TO-THE-FIRE and smother it with water
cannon and bulldozer blades while protecting the
driver/operator inside from thermal effects! Meet the
Gavin FireForce a.k.a. FireGavin Force.

16. Air-Transportable: Can be Parachuted Directly into the
Threatened Area by Fixed-Wing Aircraft Parachute Drop
or Helicopter Vertical Landing…..
Fixed-Wing Airdrop
Helicopter VTOL

17. Most prevalent Cross-Country Mobile Armored Vehicle in
the U.S. Army today! In use by the California National
Guard and in combat all over the world by over 35
countries! Several thousand M113 Gavins are in storage
available for conversion into FireGavins!
National Guard
Afghanistan/Iraq

18. Water Cannon
Back-Hoes
BullDozer Blades

19. TAKE-THE-FIGHT-TO-THE-FIRE!

20. Fire is Vanquished by GavinFireForce!
Heat Smothered by Water, Fuel Pushed Away by Earth

21. An Aerosquadron of
FireFighting Aircraft
Sustains Gavin FireForce
Large Seaplane
Water Bombers
Large Crane
Copters for
FireGavin
Transport

22. Size & Speed Do Matter: Aerosquadron and
GavinForce Ready-to-Go Instantly Anywhere
in the State of California

23. Large Jet Water Bombers
The Russians make the world’s largest Jet
Seaplane Water Bombers that can deliver
large quantities of water or fire retardant
foam to put out fires with high G-force
maneuvers. Military jets are best for this
dangerous low-altitude maneuvering than old
WW2 prop planes or converted civilian
airliners. California should buy/lease 12
Be-42/A-40 Jet Seaplanes
Russian jet seaplane water bombers to solve
its needs and to force our Navy back into
using seaplanes it should be using all along. C-17 Jet Land Planes
California Air Guard C-130s transport Gavin
FireForce.
Another option would be to buy/lease a
squadron of 12 x C-17 land plane jets from
Boeing in California to transport Gavin
FireForce (5 per airland, 3 per airdrop) and
drop water or foam with modular sprayer
tanks though its slower to refill than landing
on a lake like a seaplane can...

24. Large Helicopter Gavin FireForce VTOL Transports
and Point Water Bombers
Erickson AirCrane makes the S-64 crane
type helicopter that can lift a M113
FireGavin vertically and reposition it. It can
then pick-up a firefighting module and fight
point fires in support of the FireGavin
Force’s land smothering efforts. California
should buy a squadron of 12 x S-64s that
would fly to the scene arriving after the
Aerosquadron’s jets take initial stab at the
problem to smother it or at least contain it...

25. Can we afford Gavin FireForce and Aerosquadron?
Yes. We are already paying for it and much more in fire
damages and months of disaster relief efforts. Do you
want tax dollars paying for destroyed lives or to solve
the problem and keep people and cities intact so there
are revenues with which to have taxes in the first place?
The choice is yours: Fund Disaster or
Fund Thriving Thereafter?
We already know what Disaster looks like->
Why don’t we give VICTORY a chance?

26. Air-Mech-Strike Study Group
& U.S. Defense Consultants (USDC)
Mike Sparks
Air-Mech-Strike Study Group (AMS-SG)
dynmicpara@aol.com
David Crane Advisor/Consultant
U.S. Defense Consultants (USDC)
usdefcon@gmail.com