I dunno. The benefits of centrally locating the ground control stations in the States where there's almost unlimited communications infrastructure, allowing any particular GCS to finish a mission in a theater and then fly another one a few hours later halfway around the world would seem to outweigh the benefits of…

It was post-apocalyptic in that it occured after the Cataclysm, when the gods hurled a comet onto the Kingpriest's head and abandoned Krynn, so healing magic was gone. Or at least that's what I presume they mean

No, just a fielder's choice.