"Two weeks vacation for a reserve puke like myself pays 86 hours minimum for a 30 day month. A big plus up from 73 hour guarantee."
Days off for vacation are the most important thing for me. It takes you using two vacation weeks to get any real days off that month. I only get two weeks a year, so I need to spread them out. One week of vacation only gets me an additional 4 days off a month. That is an absolute joke. At a minimum I want to get 7 extra days off when using a week of vacation. I don't really care how we make that happen, but one way may be to credit more per vacation day.
"Training over 5 days pays 3.0 for EVERY day..even off days. That's 90 hours for a month of transition/upgrade, meaning you'll likely take a pay cut when you're finished and go back to the line."
This is a good point. I was more referring to the CQ pay, but I should have specified.