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Sep 29, 2011 | 10:49 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seaduck79

I was flying ATL --> SEA last week, and I hoped that would happen, but it didn't. There were two empty F seats until we closed the doors, then they brought up two civilians. Two guys in uniform stayed in row 40 or something.

I'm a retired AF Reserve officer -- when I was on active duty I would never accept an upgrade when traveling in uniform

I'm pretty sure a similar mindset is still prevalent among the officer corps in all the Services, regardless of what's actually written in the JFTR or in Service policy ...