What was THAT all about??
Couldn't they have put the SEALS on there, too??
Yeah, but I think that that scene was done mainly for dramatic purposes, so that they could show the psychological toll that the job had taken on Jessica Chastain's character, without her showing it to her colleagues.
shareI think she earned it.
And the SEALs were probably getting ready to head in a different direction.
"They haven't yet learned to think. They won't read. And they rarely listen. But they can see."
It's a very minor detail in the film, really. IMDB nitpicking.
shareBin Laden's body was buried at sea. I assume the SEAL team delivered the body to the ship.
shareI believe it was a C-130 Hercules...
These planes burn ~900 gallons an hour. That makes it a rather expensive taxi for just one person. A flight back to the US is probably 20 hours. 18,000 gallons of fuel at about $4.00/gallon. For one person. And that's assuming they didn't have to send the plane there to pick her up.
A plane dispatched like that for just one person MUST be pretty special to an airman.
And no, they couldn't have put the SEALs on there with her- they travel alone. they are a very closed group.
..Joe
She was simply flying out of Jalalabad on the C-130, not all the way back to the United States. The C-130 was likely just flying her to Bagram Airbase (~70 miles) or to Kandahar (~340 miles), where she would board a larger aircraft headed for Bahrain on her way back to the United States.
shareRight. I think it is another of the many sad spinoffs of MST3K that people feel compelled to spot anything in a movie that might seem odd and claim it is a terrible mistake or a dreaded plothole.
1) Planes occasionally need to be moved from one location to another for logistical reasons. Maybe she was just placed on the first flight out...
2) Security sometimes gets carried to extremes. I recall the Pan Am Space Clipper in 2001: A Space Odyssey with only one passenger. Bet that's expensive.