RAF Brize Norton

We are checked in and awaiting to board our RAF flight from RAF Brize Norton to Ascension Island. I had hoped that we would be flying on a Hercules but alas the plane is a regular passenger plane. The plane is en route to the Falkland Islands. Our flight will take us 9hrs flying time south to Ascension but those on the plane going to Falklands have a 17hr flight.