Cat I
Emergency leave
Highest Space-A priority. Unfunded emergency travel as defined by DoD.
For families
How Space-A actually works
Space available seats are leftover after duty passengers. Nothing on this board is a reservation. Pack like you might not get on.
The rhythm
- 1. Sign up. Use the AMC self-signup tool so you are in GATES before you show. Your date/time of sign-up is your place in line inside your category.
- 2. Watch the 72-hour. Terminals post a 72-hour outlook and a roll-call report. Hangar 204 pulls those official PDFs every hour, plus a second public aggregator.
- 3. Be travel-ready at roll call. IDs, passports, leave papers, and the whole family present. If you are not marked present, you do not compete.
- 4. Have a backup. AMC can cancel or fill a mission with zero notice. Commercial tickets are part of Space-A, not a failure of it.
Categories
Cat II
EML
Environmental and morale leave travelers on funded EML orders.
Cat III
Ordinary leave / house-hunting
Active duty on ordinary leave, plus some house-hunting and close-blood relatives in certain cases.
Cat IV
Unaccompanied dependents on EML
Command-sponsored unaccompanied dependents traveling on EML.
Cat V
Permissive TDY / students / others
Permissive TDY, students, and other DoD-authorized groups below Cat III/IV.
Cat VI
Retirees and other Cat VI
Retired members, unaccompanied dependents of deployed members in some cases, and other Cat VI travelers. Often the longest wait.
Where hops actually come from
Meta blocks apps from reading Facebook groups and terminal pages. Hangar 204 does not scrape Facebook. The board is built from official AMC 72-hour PDFs, 30-day Patriot Express rotators, and roll-call slides, plus a public AMC aggregator. Traveler chatter — the thing Facebook was good for — comes from the public r/SpaceA feed instead. Facebook links stay on each terminal card so you can still open them yourself.