He called from a refueling stop in New Jersey at McGuire AFB.
They are on a commercial charter, but are flying into McChord, and not SeaTac. From there they'll bus him to Ft Lewis. He expects to land here about 6:30 local time. He thinks our chances of getting on base are not impossible in person, better than the answer we got over the phone, but he isn't sure.
I told him this: That we would go to the McChord gate and try, and if we failed, that we would hang out near Ft. Lewis (Galloping Gerties prolly) and wait there. He thinks if all else fails, when he gets to Ft Lewis he can meet us at the gate or come out to Gerties. I've got his box his wife sent over to give to him, and I have a cell phone number for someone in the unit and he has mine. It's a little hard to coordinate a welcoming party under these circumstances, but ecurbh and I will be there and if you locals want to come and join us we can make a moot of it.