Originally Posted by bp65

I had a situation somewhat similar to this last year and got hosed on it (shocker), so although I don't have a definitive answer to your question, this may help with your recurrent bid.

Last year I had 5 carryover R days from the July bid month that carried in to August. I bid a reserve line that worked the first 15 days of August. My calendar showed one continuous block of 15 reserve days at the beginning of the August bid month that I was going to whack with recurrent training. Much to my dismay, scheduling viewed that chunk of reserve as 2 separate blocks of R days, because 5 of them were carryover R days from July and the other 10 were R days from the August bid. I argued my point with the company, then spoke to DT in contract enforcement. The contract seems pretty clear to me - it says "continuous block of R days." It doesn't say anything about how you got them. DT in contract enforcement of course told me the company line and said I didn't have a leg to stand on, so I was unable to knock out all 15 R days with my recurrent. I ended up splitting the 10 day block with recurrent training and all 10 of those R days disappeared, but the 5 carryover R days from July stayed on my schedule, even though it was one 15-day long continuous block of A reserve.

In your scenario, I think the company will take the view that your R days are 2 separate blocks of reserve as they are in different bid months, so bid accordingly. If your August R days are carryover days from July, then they may treat that as one block and knock out the whole thing for you, but I would bet strongly against that being the case.

Good luck and let us know what happens.