I couldn't remember about the buddy passes, so I had to go look it up in my basic indoc documents. Yes, you are eligible for up to 6 round trip buddy passes per 13 months, from January to January, after 6 months of employment. You get 1/2 the months remaining in the calendar year in which you are hired, again, after 6 months of employment.

Thats pretty much verbatim from the HR documents you will get at the beginning of class.