AN SMA WAS NOT PROPERLY HANDED OFF FROM VPS TO PNS.

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DEPARTED CRESTVIEW ENRTE TO PENSACOLA REGIONAL. RECEIVED 'FLT FOLLOWING' FROM EGLIN APCH. AFTER SOME TIME; EGLIN CALLED AND INFORMED ME THAT 'RADAR SVC TERMINATED; SQUAWK 1200.' I THOUGHT THIS ODD; AS USUALLY THEY WILL HAND YOU OFF TO PENSACOLA. THE CTLR DID; HOWEVER; SUGGEST A FREQ FOR PENSACOLA. I IMMEDIATELY TRIED TO RAISE PENSACOLA APCH; BUT DUE TO AN INTERMITTENT SECOND RADIO; WAS UNABLE FOR APPROX 1 MIN. DURING THIS TIME; WE HAD ALREADY PENETRATED THE CLASS 'C' AIRSPACE ASSOCIATED WITH PENSACOLA AND WHITING FIELD. AFTER REGAINING COM WITH APCH (PENSACOLA); I WAS INFORMED THAT WE HAD PENETRATED THE AIRSPACE SOME TIME AGO. I CALLED TRACON ONCE ON DECK BACK AT PENSACOLA. FROM MY CONVERSATION WITH THE CTLR; WE DETERMINED THAT APPARENTLY THE EGLIN CTLR 'DUMPED' US WHILE ALREADY IN PENSACOLA AIRSPACE; OR AT LEAST WITHIN 30 SECONDS OF PENETRATION. BY INSTRUCTING US TO SQUAWK VFR; IT MADE IT APPEAR TO PENSACOLA THAT WE WERE NOT TALKING TO ANYONE AND WANDERED INTO THEIR AIRSPACE ON OUR OWN ACCORD. THE ONLY SUGGESTION I MIGHT HAVE FOR THIS SIT IS; IF A CTLR DOES FORGET TO HAND YOU OFF IN TIME FOR YOU TO CONTACT THE NEXT TRACON FACILITY; AT LEAST HE COULD HAVE THE COURTESY TO LET THE NEXT FACILITY KNOW ABOUT IT RATHER THAN 'DUMPING' SOMEBODY OFF IN AIRSPACE THEY DON'T CTL. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: THE RPTR HAS HEARD NOTHING FURTHER FROM THE FAA ON THIS MATTER. IN HIS CALL TO THE PNS TRACON; TRACON STATED THAT EGLIN HAS DONE THIS QUITE OFTEN. EGLIN APPARENTLY HAS USAF CTLRS RIGHT OUT OF SCHOOL THAT ARE GETTING 'ON THE JOB TRAINING' AT THE EXPENSE OF THE RPTR AND OTHERS LIKE HIM. THE RPTR IS NOW AWARE OF THE FAA SAFETY HOTLINE AND WILL START ACTION FROM THAT DIRECTION.