Straphanger is sometimes used to mean a person who benefits from the actions and exertions of someone else, with no efforts of their own; someone who is just along for the ride. (See also free rider problem.) In the military slang used by airborne units: airborne qualified personnel conducting an airborne operation with another unit. In the central Down East region of Maine, straphanger has become an insult used against persons who are perceived as being from away. The term is generally restricted to use by the lower social strata of the area.