Originally Posted by Adlerdriver

I can only go off what we did in my unit. Official seasoning days come out of one pot of $$. After those are done you just use another pot. So, for us there was no hard limit (at least in practice).

Generally speaking, we felt expecting any fighter pilot 2 years out of the FTU to possibly start flying ~6 sorties a month and balancing an airline schedule was bad judgment (his for choosing that and/or ours for allowing it).

We staffed traditional slots with experienced AD guys because most of them wanted that. Furloughed guys who came back to full time slowed hiring off the street. Even under normal conditions, it was rare to have more than one Lt (two max) at any time. We never hired a guard baby into a traditional slot if we could avoid it. They were either ART or AGR generally speaking. If that wasn't possible, we would do whatever was necessary (temp tech slots, month to month orders) in order to keep the guy flying full time after official seasoning days expired.