Originally Posted by
liptonT
I heard rumor that they were burned by someone who recently went through indoc, got his seniority number, then dropped mil leave to finish out his 5 years of active duty. Perhaps that, combined with needing pilots ASAP, has caused them to be more inrerested in how people declare their availability dates. Just my $.02
I know the true version of a very similar story, with no rumor involved. The pilot in question resigned from a full time AGR slot, then lost both FAA and Military Medical after indoc. Scary, since the pilot was a picture of health and a competitive athlete. The unit offered orders for a non-flying position during the anticipated yearlong recovery. It was a financial lifesaver for someone who just quit their full time job and would be on disability as a new hire for Delta.
The "Outstanding performance of the individual in the area of XYX, reflected great credit upon himself and the Unites States Air Force and demonstrated his ability to serve in the higher grade of O(x+1), resulting in 5 years of military orders. No ****, real world, this really happened.
On the outside, it looked like a new hire gaming the system, but was actually a quite different scenario. Not sure if this was the "rumor" in question, but it sounds eerily similar and could be easily mis-interpreted by anyone who didn't know all of the details.