Most military members are aware of at least some of the military-run resorts that are set up to offer military families as first-class hotel at a discounted rate. The four resorts are: Shades of Green at Disneyworld Hale Koa in Waikiki, HI Dragon Hill Lodge in Seoul, Korea Edelweiss in Garmisch, Germany (the German Alps)…
A hotly debated topic among frequent fliers is whether to hoard your miles and save them for a rainy day or spend them right away on a flight before the airline can devalue the miles. Devaluation typically comes in the form of a revision to the program’s redemption rate meaning that you need more miles…
About five years ago, the military finally caught up with the way the corporate world had planned their travel needs and establish the Defense Travel System (DTS). This computerized system allows users to pop in their desired cities and dates of travel and it lists flights that the traveler may select. Upon approval, the tickets…
Over the next two weeks we’re Boardingarea.com’s featured blog, and from BGen Glenn, the founder of this blog, and myself (Andy), Welcome, and thank you for checking us out. Hopefully we can elucidate many of the perks that servicemembers can take advantage of when when travelling, and convince you that it’s awesome to travel while…
The next two weeks are our yearly featured period. We thought it was a good idea to update some of our basic posts since we haven’t done that in a while and they are great for a beginner to start. If you know someone who is just starting the miles and points game or might…
About a year ago, DoD started a program to integrate both on-post/base housing and off-post commercial hotels. They started this as a pilot program with a few of the smaller locations. They have expanded it as they worked out the bugs and just expanded again to include some of our largest posts such as Ft….
Yesterday’s post was all bout the jump, but there is a lot to cover about the town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise itself. I will start out by saying it is basically “party central” for the D-Day celebrations. The town is well preserved with a great museum, really a group of museums, right at the edge of town. …
The highlight of the trip was being able to jump into Sainte-Mere-Eglise along with troops from the 82nd Airborne Division, 173rd Infantry Regiment and many of our allied airborne partners. It was an early morning rise at 0430 and on to manifest. We then took buses to Cherbourg, the site of the airfield from which…
Continuing on from yesterday, we took 4 June to visit Point Du Hoc, the famous assault up the cliffs by the Rangers and the ceremony at Utah Beach. The French Government has spent millions to shore up the cliffs at Point Du Hoc so this key piece of history is not lost to time. We…
I expect most American military veterans dream of going to the annual celebration of one of the most epic battles in history, the Allied invasion of Normandy to liberate France and defeat the Nazi regime. For me, this trip was proof that I am the luckiest man alive since it involved me jumping into Normandy…
