[spacefreak]

Check out the itinerary of Rumsfeld's trip: Rumsfeld Makes Unannonced Visit to Iraq.

Kirkuk, Baghdad, Georgia - traveling on cargo planes and helicopters. I can't even imagine what trip would have felt like first-hand.

Rumsfeld later flew to Baghdad, where he was met at Baghdad International Airport by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of all coalition forces in Iraq...

Rumsfeld and Sanchez flew together in a Black Hawk helicopter to an outpost of the 82nd Airborne Division, where soldiers are training Iraqi recruits for a civil defense corps that Sanchez considers an important part of his strategy for giving Iraqis more responsibility for security in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country...

Rumsfeld's stop in Georgia was also interesting.

[lil'babykitten]

Wow, look at all the responses your threads are getting!

Perhaps if they had shot the bastard?

[adamk]

Originally posted by spacefreak:
I can't even imagine what trip would have felt like first-hand.

i had a chance to hop a C-130 from søndre strømfjord (greenland) to the united states with the usaf squadron that supports research in antartica. it was really interesting, but not a way that i would prefer to travel. you had to wear hearing protection, but that did little to drown out the noise. i had bud earphones on under the protection and even with the volume at 10, could barely hear the music. i imagine on a C-17, it would only be worse with the engines.

also, there were hardly any windows, i think six and they were only about a foot across. they also were positioned to check on the engines, so even then, the views were not great. though, it was interesting to see the cables that controlled the control surfaces move in flight.

adam