The Space "A" flights reminds me of when I was stationed at Incirlick AB ,TU and went home on Emergency Leave. The TMO airmen that issued me plane tickets tried to tell me that I was only going to be flown from Incirlick-Rhein Main,Ger to Philly,PA on my way home but I needed to get to St.Louis. In 1985 I knew that a Active Duty Military person on Emergency Leave was able to fly on Commercial Charter A/c or Military A/c to it's final destination and in 1985 the Commercial Charter Flight went from Frankfort Germany to Philly,PA then onto St.Louis. So I went to my CO at 628MASS in Turkey and he called Rhein Main and told the TMO person there my situation and the person in Germany told me that it was possible so, just use the tickets I had from Incirlick and fly to Germany then they would issue me a 2nd set of tickets on my Travel Orders then When I get back to Turkey just turn in my unused tickets to TMO. A good CO and some good support personel makes a big difference in the Military.
BTW Bluehawk the C17's standard seat is a hard plastic red folding seat mounted on the walls along the inside of the aircraft. The Webseats on the 141 an 130 were much more comfortable.
Also from Baltimore a troop could take a bus to Andrews and take the C9 milk run flight to bases all over the US like Scott AFB. from Atlanta the nearest base with Space A capability is Dobbins ARB/Atlanta NAS and it has only unscheduled flights so one would have to call in advance to find out if they had any flights going where you wanted to go. Where as Andrews AFB has scheduled flights weekly.Military Living's "Military Space-A Air Opportunities Around the world" is a must have book for the Soldier wanting to use Space "A" to travel. Now if one is a Single Soldier why head home to the USA when you have Europe to see the Ticket from Kuwait probably can be used for a destination in Spain,Germany,or England and the flights are much easier to get on, for intra-theater flights in USAFE. Turkey is even a good vacation spot for someone on a limited income,"been there got the T-shirt"
