MIL MTR FLT DEPARTED WITHOUT HIS DEP TIME BEING FORWARDED TO ATC BY MIL TWR OR MIL FLT CREW. ACFT PENETRATED ARTCC AIRSPACE BY 15 MILES WITHOUT COORD OR HANDOFF.

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TRNING FLT FROM COLUMBUS; MS; AFB CONSISTING OF 2 MTR'S ENTERED HOLLY SPRINGS SECTOR W/O PRIOR HDOF OR COORD. I OBSERVED THE TRANSPONDER CODE OF THE FLT APPROX 15 MI IN MY AIRSPACE. COLUMBUS AFB APCH CTLR CALLED TO INITIATE HDOF AND ADVISED THE FLT HAD NOT CALLED AIRBORNE UNTIL JUST THEN. NO EVASIVE ACTION WAS REQUIRED. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS INCLUDE THE LCL PROC AT COLUMBUS AFB FOR FLTS TO CALL AIRBORNE TO APCH CTL RATHER THAN HAVING TWR ADVISE. THE INSTR PLT OF THIS FLT SHOULD BEAR FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALLOWING THE FLT PROCEED 60 MI OUT A DEP ROUTE W/O ADVISING APCH THEY WERE AIRBORNE. THE LEAD ACFT DID NOT HAVE TRANSPONDER ACTIVATED. IN ESSENCE; WE HAD A FLT OF HIGH PERFORMANCE ACFT AT AN IFR ALT NON RADAR WITH NO COMS. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME; PERSONALLY; 3 TIMES BEFORE. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE INSTR ENSURE THE PROPER CONTACTS ARE MADE AT THE PROPER TIME. HE IS NOT RIDING A FERRIS WHEEL. THE LCL PROC SHOULD BE CHANGED TO HAVE THE TWR ADVISE DEP CTL OF ACTIVE FLTS. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING: RPTR STATED YRS OF ATC EXPERIENCE. RPTR UNABLE TO GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM CBM TWR CTLRS OR ATREP AS TO WHY THE TWR DOES NOT INPUT DEP TIMES VIA FDEP OR CALL THEM VIA LANDLINE. AS IT STANDS NOW; MANY DEPS GET AIRBORNE W/O TRANSPONDERS ON OR OFF TIMES IN COMPUTER TO ACTIVATE THE FLT PLAN; WHICH NOT ONLY RESULTS IN UNAUTH PENETRATION OF AIRSPACE; BUT COULD LEAD TO A MORE SERIOUS INCIDENT.