aztimm

Back when I was in the Army (1989 to 1993), we were discouraged from traveling in uniform most of the time. The few times I did (when on official orders and it was difficult to change), it was all I could do to avoid getting spit on or have people freak out at me... Of course no one ever gave up an F seat for me, I was in middles quite often, as many times the tickets were purchased day of the flight. But it was a different environment then. I did fly in biz class once while in the military, on my own dime (paid the diff on SEL-DTW), and it was worth every penny -v- being in steerage on that long (14 hr) flight.

I wasn't sure if we were still doing the giving up F seat thing for military now. I noticed this was a fairly short flight (DCA-CLT); I wonder if the guy would have willingly done so for a long haul.