This morning I pulled up my Flight Aware and was poking around on there and saw this flight: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N560BL/history/20230512/1030Z/KFLL/MUGM
Tail number N560BL because this flight will be landing soon, but it will take off again in about an hour.
So I saw it flying into Guantanamo Bay so I was researching what it was. It is owned by KAC MD LLC which sounds like a medical doctor. So I was thinking it might be a specialty doctor for the base. I figure regular doctors for the base and prison would be military and not a private company. But I was looking at its flight history and it goes down there repeatedly, lands for only an hour, and leaves again. Hardly enough time to get on base or do some doctoring. But it is three days between flights. So is this MD staying down there for three days at a time? Sounds like a long time for a private doctor. My other thought is maybe the government is leasing it out for “under the radar” (pun intended) prisoner runs? If I had military background I could probably infer more but I don’t.
Great thought! I hadn't thought of that! hmm. That's interesting. I wonder if there is a specific requirement or qualification for attending execution. I wonder if there is a reason that an active duty MD can't do it. Interesting. I did think of body bags/mortuary services/corpse transport. Do executed treasoners get to be flown home to have a funeral?
I really don't think it's a supply flight. I do think supplies are contracted out (I have worked in a DoD hospital on a big base, DoD contracts out everything and lots of it), but jails are not hospitals. It's unlikely that there is a need for constant replenishment of supplies for a relatively stable prison population. They are criminals, not patients. Although, some of them are pretty old.
Interesting, fren, thanks for something to think about.