‘Fini Flight’

GREENE COUNTY
  • Air Forced Lt. Col. Ryan Sanders makes his final military flight in the skies over Lake Oconee. CONTRIBUTED
    Air Forced Lt. Col. Ryan Sanders makes his final military flight in the skies over Lake Oconee. CONTRIBUTED
  • This Air Force C-130J flown by Lt. Col. Ryan Sanders had everyone in Lake Country talking. CONTRIBUTED
    This Air Force C-130J flown by Lt. Col. Ryan Sanders had everyone in Lake Country talking. CONTRIBUTED

    Air Force veteran completes C-130 flight over Lake Oconee

    If you happened to glance up into the vastness of the sky June 26, you might have spotted an Air Force C-130J flying at an unusually low altitude.

    It wasn’t a military exercise or the prelude to an invasion of Lake Country, but the final flight — known in Air Force circles as a finiflight — of Lt. Col. Ryan Sanders, who is retiring after 22 y…