Originally Posted by Grumble

Get off your cross. I've never worked a single holiday stateside active duty or reserve. Deployed, obviously. Unless you're in a Noble Eagle or UAS or similar unit, I've yet to find the reserve/guard squadron thats running a drill weekend on the 4th/cmas/tgiving.

Obviously there are 24/7 world wide Ops, and if you're legitimately engaged then you have nothing to worry about. There are jerkoffs that abuse it though and it's why we're having this conversation.