Each and every one of my AGR bros has had to provide an availability date 4-6 months into the future contingent on the Command approving your AGR curtailment. 4 months being the current turn-around rate for such paperwork without the need for a waiver. None of them have been hassled by it. I don't see the issue frankly. Sure, stuff happens, you can get denied, people can get stop-lossed.

I understand it's slightly different for regAF dudes without a revolving window of curtailment, but in the Reserve side we aren't lying when we project dates of availability without a cemented DOS. If that's a problem, so be it. I'm not "preemptively quitting" my living wage job to wait by the phone for an offer from an employer that doesn't give me the damn courtesy of timely training dates or even pays/houses me commensurately during training in the first place. I'm not that desperate and by my calculations, this thing gets worse for the airlines as time ticks by. In two years the mere utterance of this topic will be laughable. But hey, to each their own. The places that recognize value in military applicants will behave accordingly, the "tier 1 employers" will continue to act befuddled going forward.