Flying threw the Air Force

**Armykid93** · 12-10-2012, 11:08 AM

Does anyone know if its possible to fly threw the military like for civilian reasons? Example, I want to go home after my deployment is there any way to do this threw the military? I've heard rumors that you can threw the Air Force. Anybody have experience with this?

**Lunk1** · 12-10-2012, 11:11 AM

Wouldnt they fly you home after deployment normally? 100 years ago when I was enlisted you could catch those type of flights occasionaly but you had to be very flexible. It never really worked out

**likelifting** · 12-10-2012, 11:44 AM

Yes, back in the day they had 'hops' You could take them if there was room on the plane. No food. I remember sitting on nets for short time with a lot of cargo on hop. That only happened once. That was a long time ago, not sure if they still have them.

**MickeyKnox** · 12-10-2012, 12:20 PM

See if you can thumb a ride on Air Force One..

**Armykid93** · 12-10-2012, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by likelifting

Yes, back in the day they had 'hops' You could take them if there was room on the plane. No food. I remember sitting on nets for short time with a lot of cargo on hop. That only happened once. That was a long time ago, not sure if they still have them.

Thanks, I think you can do something similar now, I just don't know how to go about it and Mickey I tried sadly I can't jump high enough for them to see i'm trying to hitch hike lol there's an air force base in San Antonio though maybe I should just try calling someone there

**ac guy** · 12-12-2012, 12:25 AM

Ask your squad or platoon sergeant. I can't remember who you reserve a seat with, but the cost is dirt cheap. Down side is that if the flight is booked, and someone of higher rank wants a seat, they may remove you to a later flight. That and no hot stewardess to serve you drinks lol.

**Armykid93** · 12-12-2012, 09:23 AM

Lol where are you flying? I've never had a hot stewardess!!

**ac guy** · 12-12-2012, 07:19 PM

Funny you should ask. The hottest I ever met were on our flight back from Haiti in the mid 90's .Maybe it was the fact that all we had to look at for 6 months was the local women lowered our standards . We got to take a 747 back to Bragg instead of the C141 we took down there ( thank God). It was a weird feeling carrying an M203 on a commercial flight.

**Riptorn** · 12-12-2012, 08:19 PM

You can still take HOPS through the AF. The only bad thing is that you can be waiting a while because its all space-a. Meaning you need a lot of leave just in case you can't get a return flight on time.

Basically call the airhead at the base you want to leave from to get their flight plans for the month and go from there. You can get bumped for any reason BTW.

**likelifting** · 12-12-2012, 08:23 PM

I had pretty good luck with hops.

**Riptorn** · 12-12-2012, 09:06 PM

Were you a loggie? lol

**likelifting** · 12-12-2012, 09:19 PM

Not sure what that is.

**Riptorn** · 12-12-2012, 09:25 PM

The guys who ran the flight plans.

**likelifting** · 12-12-2012, 09:35 PM

Ah, no. I'm following now. lol

I did mostly US hops, so maybe thats why I didn't run into probs.

**Armykid93** · 12-12-2012, 10:19 PM

Originally Posted by ac guy

Funny you should ask. The hottest I ever met were on our flight back from Haiti in the mid 90's .Maybe it was the fact that all we had to look at for 6 months was the local women lowered our standards . We got to take a 747 back to Bragg instead of the C141 we took down there ( thank God). It was a weird feeling carrying an M203 on a commercial flight.

Lol yeah that was probably strange

**Armykid93** · 12-12-2012, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Riptorn

You can still take HOPS through the AF. The only bad thing is that you can be waiting a while because its all space-a. Meaning you need a lot of leave just in case you can't get a return flight on time.

Basically call the airhead at the base you want to leave from to get their flight plans for the month and go from there. You can get bumped for any reason BTW.

Thanks for the info. Yeah I kinda figured, sucks because i'm sure someone with more rank than I have could just bump me for what ever reason.

**wmaousley** · 12-13-2012, 03:10 AM

Originally Posted by Armykid93

Does anyone know if its possible to fly threw the military like for civilian reasons? Example, I want to go home after my deployment is there any way to do this threw the military? I've heard rumors that you can threw the Air Force. Anybody have experience with this?

Yes, its called space A flights, contact your local wing command

**Armykid93** · 12-13-2012, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by wmaousley

Yes, its called space A flights, contact your local wing command

Figured you would give me an answer here to haha. Your probably the most knowledgeable on this stuff

**sgt2jay** · 12-13-2012, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by ac guy

Funny you should ask. The hottest I ever met were on our flight back from Haiti in the mid 90's .Maybe it was the fact that all we had to look at for 6 months was the local women lowered our standards . We got to take a 747 back to Bragg instead of the C141 we took down there ( thank God). It was a weird feeling carrying an M203 on a commercial flight.

My flight back from Haiti was a fun one as well. I flew Lufstnsa (spellig?) back. I took the Eisenhower there not as much fun got lost and that ship every day ttrying to get to the chow hall? What unit where you with when you went to Haiti? I was 10th Mountain

**ac guy** · 12-13-2012, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by sgt2jay

My flight back from Haiti was a fun one as well. I flew Lufstnsa (spellig?) back. I took the Eisenhower there not as much fun got lost and that ship every day ttrying to get to the chow hall? What unit where you with when you went to Haiti? I was 10th Mountain

18th Airborne Corp. We had our compound at the end of the runway in Port au Prince. Had to love the tarantulas in our tents, the massive mosquitoes, and the pleasant aroma of the city lol. It was nice returning to the states in January with a hell of a tan.

Ever go to the Air Force base? I never knew plastic tents with air conditioning, and water buffaloes with water chillers existed until I saw how they live. Must have been nice.