Sunday, July 18, 2010

Lucky Trip


So, having checked into the Air Mobility Command terminal upon commencing my leave Wednesday, I was all primed to go for the flight to Charleston, SC on Friday. Charleston is one of four main places the Air Force flies to Europe from (the others being Dover, McGuire, and BWI). I found the flight on www.pepperd.com, which is a vBulletin site that has tons of Space-Available (Space-A) flight information, including members who post flight info they get from calling the terminal's pre-recorded message. Still not really clear on why they don't just post it on the interwebs.

I packed the kids (and myself) up and headed down to the terminal with the idea that we needed to be able to carry everything for the trip on our backs because we want to be mobile enough to walk places if needed.

Based on being a Category III (Active Duty-Regular Leave) and getting into the system early, we got selected right away for the flight to Charleston, SC. Quinn holds the "golden tickets" in front of two C-17's at Hickam, the current workhorses for the USAF.


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