Expressjet based in Atlanta or PSA bases in Charlotte... Drive to work...

Welcome to the world of military transition. Lots of stuff to consider...

Aero Crew News has an app (ACNNewstand I believe) that publishes monthly emags that provide airline profiles and general overviews and occasional interviews on hiring trends. They cover majors and regionals- might be a good place to spend the next week reading through the last year of issues (I believe it started in March 15).

Regionals will probably get you to the majors the quickest, provided you can stomach the paycut, and have a clean record etc.

Many guys can't, or chose not to take the paycut to go the regional route and get their start out in ISR... They pay about what you make now, and let you live anywhere you want. Trade off is you're gone half the time in 60 to 90 day blocks. Lots of guys have been leaving ISR for AA and United lately... SWA has been scheduling interviews for multiple guys as well in recent months. I've had a hiring helper at AA, and another at DAL recommend the ISR route as a viable path to their companies as well as the regionals.

If you can retire in December you may want to apply to the ISR companies this week since they can do phone interviews and make hiring decisions without making you fly from Oki to interview in person. I've heard some regionals are doing phone interviews as well, I'm just not sure if Expressjet and PSA are. If you get hired on by a company you can always cancel if you get a better gig lined up. We had 3 pilots no show to my ISR class and a class or two behind me one of the guys got a call from AA while he was in sims... Needless to say he didn't stick around.