Team Wright Brothers Senior Leaders & Colleagues,
BLUF: Please join us on Saturday, 29 Apr, to participate in the Honor Flight Network and welcome our distinguished WWII, Korean and Vietnam Veterans back home! Members need to be at the American Airlines ticket counter to obtain a gate pass (say you're there for Honor Flight) and get thru the TSA checkpoint before 9pm. UOD for active duty will be ABUs.
Details: In place time for members is not later than 9pm. The airport, TSA and American Airlines are doing all in their power to make it easier for us all to do this (they're staying open later to accommodate us, hence the 9pm deadline). Join us to line the hallways in the Dayton Airport to welcome home this next batch of at least 80-90 Veterans! The arrival time is scheduled for 10:35pm, but to be in the gate area with us when the plane arrives, you must get a gate pass and process through TSA prior to 9:00pm.
Background: Honor Flight Dayton (HFD) executed their 2015 and 2016 flying seasons with goals of getting close to 100 WWII, Korean and Vietnam veterans on each flight. These record numbers more than doubled the usual numbers they take to Washington in a year. They frequently have more than 200 people at the gate and several hundred more downstairs. Your participation in these homecomings means the world to the veterans, and it means the world to HFD as well. Your participation means that our heroes know they are honored, know they are remembered and know that what they did to protect our home and way of life has not been forgotten and will live on in the memories of our children and our children's children.
Honor Flight's goal when it was originated, right here in Springfield, Ohio, was to get every WWII veteran to Washington DC to see the memorial built for them in 2004-2005. The memorial was built 60 years late, and we were losing these WWII veterans before many of them could see the memorial. One person's good will to take a veteran to see his memorial, flying his personal plane right out of Springfield, OH, turned into a nationwide organization that, as of the end of 2014, has now taken 138,817 WWII, Korean and Vietnam veterans to see their memorials free of charge. In addition, 88,434 guardians have paid their own way to take care of these veterans on these trips from 134 flight/travel hubs in 42 states. HFD is an incredible organization and a tribute to the idea that one person can make a difference in the lives of many.
I encourage you to read the attachments for more information about Honor Flight and Honor Flight Dayton (please note the procedures attached are for 2015 but details still apply!).
Thanks for your time and we look forward to seeing you soon!
V/r,
DARA W. HOBBS, Maj, USAF
Wright Brothers Chapter
Logistics Officer Association
DSN 787-4841 Comm 937-257-4841
2015-hf-history.pdf
2015-procedures.pdf
2015-hfpresident.pdf
