Originally Posted by
cma2407
Here's the short version: 7 days vacation. 2 days front, 2 days rear. If you commute...subtract 2.
Bottom line, you get 9 days off--somewhere--in a 5 wk bid month. Long ways away from knocking out most of a month...
That's one way of looking at it. Here's another:
July is a 5-week bidmonth. A Reserve Line holder will be responsible for sitting 19 days of Reserve.
7 days of vacation can be Extended to 10 days using the provision of Sec. 7. Para. G.3.e.i. Buffers before and after will add another 4 days of time free from duty. With 10 days of Reserve "knocked out" by Vacation, he will still be on the hook for 9 days of Reserve.
He needs the last three weeks off. Using Sunday to Saturday as the "week" for my example, he can SLIDE and/or EXTEND his Vacation to begin on July 10 (Tues) and to end on Jul 20 (Fri). 48-hour buffers will guarantee he has OFF from 0130 July 8 (Sun) to 0129 Jul 22 (Sun).
That leaves 21 days of the month that could have R-days, and the next step will depend on how the original Reserve Line was constructed. If there are more than 9 days left in those remaining days, those in excess of 9 will be dropped, and he gets to ask which ones. If there are R-days in week 5, he should ask to drop those first.
If there are fewer than 9 R-days remaining, R-days will be added to reach that number, and he gets to ask which ones. He should ask for R-days in the first 2 weeks.
If he can get all the R-days in the first 2 weeks, he's golden. If he still winds up with R-days in week 5, there's a pretty good chance he won't be used, since every day of Vacation will be credited towards R-day leveling (10 R-days in this case). He still has options to deal with those R-days.
That makes it easy to knock out most of the month.
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