Using untrained soldiers is a recipe for disaster, even trained firefighter can be killed if the wind shifts. How many Jewish soldiers will have to die until you see the futility of it.
As far as water dropped from air craft not putting out fires. This is due to the fact that the volume of water dropped is minimal and then the plane has to land to get more water. My idea is to have the planes scoop up the water while flying a foot or two above the Mediterranean. Then have air controller vector them to the fire to insure they drop it for maximum effect and don’t crash into one another. This way there will be a constant flow of air craft dropping water on the fire. While having air craft scoop water while flying is not new the idea of having the planes follow one after the other and drop and scoop water has never been done.
I am not a know it all but please explain why this isn’t feasible?
This concept is used by bomber with aircraft rearmed and refueled in minutes and sent back on another sortie.