Originally Posted by What

You start class in December, you will start flying the line around March. You will still be bottom half of the reserve list in July, you will have no vacation to bid on, you aren't likely to hold a hard line thus being in reserve. Middle of summer will likely not yield any type of additional days off that you aren't awarded on your reserve line. We have the ability to borrow from the following years vacation and by July you will have a week worth of vacation for 2018, however they are going to be denied due to staffing, specifically since you are likely to be asking for a weekend. I am not trolling you, just telling you like it's going to be.

The best advice I can give you is, plan a flexible weeding that you can schedule the month prior once you have your schedule or reschedule it for 2018 once you have vacation.