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Holiday Leave
November 26th, 2010
Twas a month before Christmas and all through the house
Creatures started stirring, yup, even the mouse…
Gah, I suck at poetry, even when I try and bastardize someone else’s work.
Anyway, the season is upon us. The time of year when the wife makes you pull down the boxes of decorations from the attic, put up the tree and start the laborious process of making the house look like the place only elves would congregate. Well, this year – just say no! Put the fun back in the holidays! Take advantage of a benefit you have been saying you’d get around to using.
Space A travel.
If you live in the United States, what better time to fly then the Christmas holiday season? Think about it – you will fly against the flow of traffic. Those living overseas will be coming home, if they have people coming to visit them, more than likely they will not be entitled the benefit and will be flying commercial – the opposite would be true coming home after New Years, making the trip home a piece of cake, even for us Cat 6 retired guys.
Find the nearest air base to you – here in the Memphis area, we have an Air National Guard base stocked with C-5 Galaxy aircraft. Each one has about 70 seats made available for passengers. With weekly flights to and from Europe, and bi-monthly flights to and from the Pacific we are abound with Space A travel opportunities in the Mid-South. With a little research, I bet you will find that you don’t have to travel far either.
For those on active duty, you can sign-up (put your name on the waiting list) for flights leaving once your leave commences. For those in other eligible categories, you can sign-up 60 days in advance. Signing up is easy. One real good resource for signing-up is online this form at TakeaHop.com
Space-available travel is a privilege (not an entitlement) that accrues to Uniformed Services members as an avenue of respite from the rigors of Uniformed Services duty. Retired Uniformed Services members are given the privilege in recognition of a career of such rigorous duty and because they are eligible for recall to active duty. The underlying criteria for extending the privilege to other categories of passengers is their support to the mission being performed by Uniformed Services members and to the enhancement of active duty Service members’ quality of life.
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