Originally Posted by
West Coast
A typical squadron in the USMC was 400ish personnel for 12+ jets. Imagine a skeleton outfit could do with less.
A lot of those 400 were truck drivers, cooks, supply types, medics, ammunition handlers, guards and such. Let's not forget that Ukraine has all of these available already. The pool of trained ex AF personnel is probably about 10,000 people. Getting support set up would be no problem. I bet there are many E-mails between candidates and the Ukrainians flying about as we speak.