PM and "Barnaby" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> As is now true for
> members of the military using Air Force planes (there is / was a term
> for this, but I can't bring it to mind, at the moment) and for airline
> employees, he could go anywhere for free by hooking up with a series
> of trains headed in the right direction till he reached his
> destination.
>
> -Wilson
>


I believe that a person who travels that way is flying "space available"
-- that is, he could deadhead on the plane, so long as there was an
empty seat in the direction he was going, and there wasn't someone of
superior rank/priority who could bump him.
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