Originally Posted by Humboldt

Wollac,
Depending on your unit and command, they have a lot of flexibility. I have known guys to take an even earlier class date, in your case you put 6 Feb 15 as an availability date. Say you accepted a class date with an airline for 6 Jan 15. You could take permissive LV first (cause you can't sell permissive) go to airline class on a combo of permissive and personal. Finish your class and if you have 7 days between class and IOE, go work a few days at your unit. Then when you start flying airline trips, work a day or two here or there at your unit, just to make your leave zero out by your retirement date (it helps to work a Friday or a Monday and save a weekend of leave (one day of work for 3 days of leave saved)). If you have days left, you could STILL sell a few back at the end. It all depends on your squadrons flexibility. If you gave 20 years of your life, I think your Sqd CC could help a brother out!

Then you just double dipped for almost 6 months! Could be a life saver on year one pay.

Cheers,
Humboldt