Originally Posted by
Speed Select
With 16 years in, an AD retirement is easily in reach through the Guard/Res with an AGR stint or two. It would be more disappointing to realize you gave up 4-5 years of seniority at a career airline in lieu of an active duty retirement when you could have had both.
It's not that simple though. It's unlikely they'll give you an AGR that they know from the get go will put you into sanctuary as a pinned on AD O-5. Any younger than that, and you won't have enough time to make it to 20 Active before you tap out on USERRA, unless you start pulling piecemeal contingency deployments that are USERRA exempt, or change "career" airlines after 5 years, which defeats the entire scheme.
But to your point, I too would much prefer slugging AD credit point collecting on a piecemeal basis in the ARC any day of the week and twice on Sunday, than endure the Active Duty madness. That place jumped the shark a while ago.
