I spent 35 hours on a DC8 stretch from McCord AFB to Cairo in 85. Multiple stops but couldn’t get off.
36 hours Thailand to Okinawa. Viet Nam had fallen, we were told to leave. The Pentagon sent a full compliment of replacements who then needed to be scattered all over SE Asia. Flew the long way around Vietnam, stopped at Clark, P.I., and ended up at Kadena. TDY orders had one guy on the front of the page and 130 of us typed on the back. All very haphazard. No one was allowed to return to CONUS unless they retired. We all sat in that web seating-military cargo planes. Talk about stupid.