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Old 02-10-2016, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Deer Hunter View Post
Dragging up an old thread but with the new contract, the wording on conflicting a string of r days with training has changed. Instead of "splitting" a block of r days, new contract says just a training conflict with a block will drop the whole block of rdays. Does anybody know if this has been implemented yet? Or is this one of those TBD bohica items?
Implementation schedule says "TBD". Old rules were still in effect in Jan. I would bid under the old rules to be safe and hope we would get some sort of notification when "TBD" is finally "D".

Remember that training days that hit in the first or last part of your R-day string may look like they'll split the R-days. However, training must still have R-days on either side after applicable buffers for the training itself, nearby trips or vaca have been applied.

You have a long trip (with a 48 hour buffer) that ended on the last Sunday of Feb and bid RA that started on Monday for March. You drop training into reserve starting Wednesday thinking you're going to drop the whole R-block since Mon & Tues R-days will be on the "left" of training. Unless you waived your Int'l buffer, Mon & Tues R-days go away and all your R-days to the right of training stay.

R-B the day before a 0900L classroom will get dropped due to training buffer, so if that's the first R-day then you're no longer splitting them.

Many other scenarios that can give similar results but that's a couple of examples.
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