Saluting vehicles

[Cecil DP]

My two Loadmasters and myself were all threatened with "The Wrath of the Colonel" when we took the cell phone from the wife of the Support Group Commander at a base in Alaska so we could takeoff from Mc Chord AFB, WA.

She had decided that the rules didn't apply to her since she was "Mrs Col Blah Blah" and we were only Reserve enlisted folk.

She got her phone back when we dropped her at "her" base and we never heard a peep about it, ever, despite the threats.

But we made [darn] sure that she was on the blacklist for Space-A passengers.
If she wanted to go to Seattle for shopping she was going to have to pay Alaska Airlines because she wasn't flying with AMC.

She should have been tossed off for refusing to obey the flight crew while in performance of their duties.

[MikeD]

My two Loadmasters and myself were all threatened with "The Wrath of the Colonel" when we took the cell phone from the wife of the Support Group Commander at a base in Alaska so we could takeoff from Mc Chord AFB, WA.

She had decided that the rules didn't apply to her since she was "Mrs Col Blah Blah" and we were only Reserve enlisted folk.

She got her phone back when we dropped her at "her" base and we never heard a peep about it, ever, despite the threats.

But we made [darn] sure that she was on the blacklist for Space-A passengers.
If she wanted to go to Seattle for shopping she was going to have to pay Alaska Airlines because she wasn't flying with AMC.

She should have been tossed off for refusing to obey the flight crew while in performance of their duties.

Technically that's failure to follow flight crews orders.  Some people managed to get some serious felony charges with DHS involvement these days...

[PHall]

It was easier for us and the other passengers and patients to just take and turn off her phone so we could get airborne. We already had a 5 hour flight ahead of us and the Med Crew was telling us to either go now or taxi back to the blocks so we could download a patient who was going home to Alaska.

But that meant we also had 5 hours to make some calls ourself. One was to her husband's office by the aircraft commander.
(HF phone patches are fun!)

She knew that night how close she had come to going to jail.

And the other passengers and patients got to where they were going.

[Grumpy]

It was easier for us and the other passengers and patients to just take and turn off her phone so we could get airborne. We already had a 5 hour flight ahead of us and the Med Crew was telling us to either go now or taxi back to the blocks so we could download a patient who was going home to Alaska.

But that meant we also had 5 hours to make some calls ourself. One was to her husband's office by the aircraft commander.
(HF phone patches are fun!)

She knew that night how close she had come to going to jail.

And the other passengers and patients got to where they were going.

"Boil, boil, trouble and toil" as he stirs the pot.