What was your greatest beer run and who did you do it for?

We carried spare parts to the Shah’s P3s at Bandar Abbas. Lockheed Martin provided the tech’s and engineers to maintain the planes. Along with spare parts we carried a large quantity of coors beer. This beer run was from Kadena AB, Okinawa to Bandar Abbas. That is about 4500 miles as the crow flies.

The door gunner. Our squad would give him the cash and on resupply day he would return with beer and blocks of ice to roll it in to get cold. Two beers and I was tipsy. Then off on patrol again. A guy in our squad had his sister send whiskey in shampoo bottles. Lots of crazy stories.

Not close to Donohue's story, but I once flew the headquarter's transport. It was primarily to fly VIPs, the inspection teams, my annual Christmas run where I'd fly it all over the states picking up anyone who wanted aboard, and the band. As things go, an argument started about what beer was the best. There were several of our people from out west who bragged about Coors. Since the majority of the people were east coasters, and Coors didn't ship east, they decided someone had to go get some. They found out it was available in Dallas and came to me to ask me to make the run. They took up a collection, we took some seats out of the aircraft and hauled two pallets of the stuff back from Dallas. Of course it wasn't unprecedented, a few tears earlier, there had been a trip west for bison meat for a barbeque.
Since this was the 70s and I've been retired since 89, I'll swear it didn't happen if the IG shows up at my front door!