Earl....couldn't disagree at all...well said....
Squid66....some valid points..and I for one am not saying that contractors are not flexible at all or when the imperative demands it...and the 2 cases you seem to be quoting are examples of flexibility in response to disasters or emergencies. What they are not are internal adjustments and refocused use of contracted resources for routine tasks.....which as you rightly say, if they are not inlcuded in the contract by specifiers with sufficent foresight, will lead to no response..
In the context of using FBH 139s based at Valley for what the Earl was suggesting ..the argument stands